de buenas a primeras

de buenas a primeras

familiar all of a sudden, just like that

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suddenly, without warning

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= right off the bat, suddenly, without warning, all of a sudden, just like that

Ex. I can't think of an exact example to give you right off the bat.

Ex. Then suddenly he extinguished his smile and arranged his countenance so that his listener should suppose him to be profoundly disturbed.

Ex. In February 1986 an unforeseeable financial crisis at the Georgia Institute of Technology's library made it necessary to divert the binding budget to other areas and without warning binding activities were halted.

Ex. The process of secularization in Britain occurred all of a sudden sending Christianity on a downward spiral to the edges of social significance.

Ex. All I have to say is nothing happens just like that overnight, it takes time and exhausting waiting.

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= right off the bat, suddenly, without warning, all of a sudden, just like that

Ex: I can't think of an exact example to give you right off the bat.

Ex: Then suddenly he extinguished his smile and arranged his countenance so that his listener should suppose him to be profoundly disturbed.

Ex: In February 1986 an unforeseeable financial crisis at the Georgia Institute of Technology's library made it necessary to divert the binding budget to other areas and without warning binding activities were halted.

Ex: The process of secularization in Britain occurred all of a sudden sending Christianity on a downward spiral to the edges of social significance.

Ex: All I have to say is nothing happens just like that overnight, it takes time and exhausting waiting.