rhyme or reason

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Logic; common sense. idiomatic,uncountable
    — Prices vary considerably from one town to another with no apparent rhyme or reason.

词形变化

rhyme nor reason alternative

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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