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what is the origen of this phrase
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.The phrase has been in use for the past three hundred years. It generally suggests, nowadays, that the pregnancy was 'accidental' in much the same way as any other 'fall' is accidental. I suppose the idea is that the condition dropped upon the woman concerned 'like a bolt from the blue'...as if she herself had little to do with it!
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