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rhyme or reason

noun

Etymology

Calque of Middle French n'y avoir ryme ne raison (Eustache Deschamps), attributed to the poet Edmund Spenser in a conversation with Queen Elizabeth I.

  1. derived from n'y avoir ryme ne raison

Definitions

  1. Logic

    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.
    • I could see no rhyme or reason for the referee's decision. It was baffling!

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for rhyme or reason. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA