Rhyme-or-reason Definition

noun

(idiomatic) Logic. Common sense.

Prices vary considerably from one town to another with no apparent rhyme or reason.
He would often fly into an unexpected rage without rhyme or reason.
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Origin of Rhyme-or-reason

  • Attributed to the poet Edmund Spenser. See .

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Rhyme-or-reason Sentence Examples

  • There's no real rhyme or reason behind the desire to read spoilers.

  • They were in a hurry enough to start us, and now here we stand in the middle of a field without rhyme or reason.

  • Instead, the following is a raw list of things to do in San Francisco without rhyme or reason but an adherence to randomness.

  • In pieces such as Liszt's " Poemes symphoniques," Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne (1848-1856), after a poem by Victor Hugo, and Die Ideale (1853-1857), after a poem by Schiller, the hearer is bewildered by a series of startling orchestral effects which succeed one another apparently without rhyme or reason.

  • If so, these are signs of food aversion, and they seem to happen without rhyme or reason.

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Words Starting With

RRHRHY

Words Ending With

NONSON

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Words Starting With R and Ending With N

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