out in the left field(Sally is a lot of fun, but she is sort of out in the left field. • What a strange idea. It is really out in the left field.goorun)
just like that(suddenly and, sometimes, unexpectedly: The alarm went off, just like that. • We were jogging slowly in the park when, just like that, she collapsed.Andrey Truhachev)
sow confusion("[The fire alarm] had been activated shortly before the shots began, perhaps an effort by the gunman to sow confusion." (NYT)Yuri Ginsburg)