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stand to reason

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stand to reason
to seem likely to be true. It stands to reason that the more experience you have, the better you'll be at solving problems.
See also: reason, stand


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For, it inscrutably appeared to stand to reason, in the minds of the whole company, that I was an excrescence on the entertainment.
"It doesn't stand to reason that a pretty woman could be th' mother o' such a fou' little lass," she had added obstinately.
Would it stand to reason, that such a fish should live and be catched in this here little pond of water, where it’s hardly deep enough to drown a man, as you’ll find in the wide ocean, where, as every body knows that is, everybody that has followed the seas, whales and grampuses are to be seen, that are as long as one of the pine- trees on yonder mountain?
 
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