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Extraordinarily announce boom? Lie -- bust! (4,2,1,4,4)

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I believe the answer is:

once in a blue moon

'extraordinarily' is the definition.

'announce boom? lie bust' is the wordplay.
'bust' indicates an anagram.
'announce'+'boom'+'lie'='announceboomlie'
'announceboomlie' is an anagram of 'ONCE IN A BLUE MOON'.

(Other definitions for once in a blue moon that I've seen before include "on very rare occasions" , "with extremely low frequency'" , "very occasionally" , "Hardly ever (4,2,1,4,4)" , "very rarely" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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