rhyme or reason

短语

原因,缘故,理由

发音

AU

别名

rhyme nor reason

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Logic; common sense.

    习语 不可数

    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!

词源

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.

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