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rhyme-or-reason

Noun

(uncountable)

  1. (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.
Usage notes
  1. Almost always used in a negative form, particularly with no and without
Origin

Attributed to the poet Edmund Spenser. See .

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  • beginning rhyme
  • unrhyme
  • monorhyme
  • rhyming
  • rhymable
  • rhymic
  • sdrucciola
  • holorhyme
  • stave-rhyme
  • rhymelike

WORDS NEAR rhyme-or-reason IN THE DICTIONARY


  • rhykenologists
  • rhymable
  • rhyme
  • rhyme-off
  • rhyme-or-reason
  • rhyme royal
  • rhyme-royal
  • rhyme scheme
  • rhyme-scheme
  • rhyme-schemes
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