0 a flash of lightning and the sound of thunder together
1 an announcement, event, or idea that is completely unexpected or shocking:
2 a flash of lightning, esp. with the sound of thunder
Fire in one of its most sensorily arresting forms is the "thunderbolt," which "pilots all things".
Pleasing, too, is the notion of love as a gradual development rather than a thunderbolt.
The thunderbolt, when it came, took everyone by surprise.
She says that the thunderbolt strikes the oak but leaves the myrtle; in other words it discriminates in punishing the lofty or exceptionally vicious, but spares the ordinary or commonplace.
Political assassinations do not come out of a clear sky any more than do thunderbolts.
A second lesson of which we would do well to take note is that surprise attacks can come like thunderbolts out of a blue sky.
The more thunderbolts he hurls the more we welcome it.
In war, the clouds never blow over; they gather increasingly and fall in thunderbolts.
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