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no rhyme or reason

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no rhyme or reason
if there is no rhyme or reason why something happens, there is no obvious explanation for it I don't know what makes her behave like that. There's no rhyme or reason to it.
See also: reason, rhyme

no rhyme or reason also without rhyme or reason
without any reasonable explanation or purpose Because the cave was formed by gases that ate away the rock, there seems to be no rhyme or reason to its shape.
See also: reason, rhyme


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Everyone had some defect, of body or of mind: he thought of all the people he had known (the whole world was like a sick-house, and there was no rhyme or reason in it), he saw a long procession, deformed in body and warped in mind, some with illness of the flesh, weak hearts or weak lungs, and some with illness of the spirit, languor of will, or a craving for liquor.
All my fastidiousness would suddenly, for no rhyme or reason, vanish.
 
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