out of nowhere

That is, until she pops up with a perfect insult out of nowhere, like when she says her friend Zack’s hair “still looks like a LEGO,” a thought I’d already had many times myself as I measured the distance between his hairline and his browline with two fingers.

But it did not come out of nowhere.

It’s a cackle-worthy bit of dialogue, thrown out of nowhere so Cronenberg can establish a baseline for the film’s silliness.

"That's a bottleneck and there's nothing they can do, unless they change their stance on immigration entirely. You can't just magic PhDs out of nowhere."

Other proposals seem to come out of nowhere, forcing voters — who may have come prepared only to choose a president, governor, mayor or whatever — to also make judgments about county commissioners, school board members and so on, whose campaigns may never have attracted media attention or made an impression on ordinary voters.