Talk:come un fulmine a ciel sereno

RFD discussion: January–February 2021
Italian SOP, come + un + fulmine a ciel sereno. Imetsia (talk) 17:22, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep. I think this expression is idiomatic, used without reflection by speakers who have never seen one. If some event is assigned this attribute, like last year‘s Android update for the TCL-10L, no one unfamiliar with the idiom would even think of applying this hyperbolic simile. German has the perfect equivalent, and I venture that the English expression , contra the etymology presented there, is likewise short for something like “like a lighting bolt out of the blue sky”. Perhaps there is a Latin progenitor, and the ur-etymon possibly had a longer phrase, “as unexpected as ...”. --Lambiam 15:22, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
 * We have bolt from the blue, but we don't have "like a bolt from the blue". Chuck Entz (talk) 17:50, 29 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Redirect to fulmine a ciel sereno. —Mahāgaja · talk 16:59, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Hard redirect per Mahagaja or delete, I'm not picky. ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  10:13, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Redirect. Ultimateria (talk) 19:21, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Redirect. Fay Freak (talk) 09:47, 12 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Keep or redirect. Whichever. &mdash; Dentonius 09:04, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
 * RFD-kept but redirected. Imetsia (talk) 15:58, 26 February 2021 (UTC)