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English
Prepositional phrase
on a sudden
- (obsolete) all of a sudden; suddenly
1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC, line 900:How are thou loſt, how on a ſudden loſt,
1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:On a sudden he was aware of a man linking along at his side. He cried a fine night, and the man replied.