without rhyme or reason

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Cliché without purpose, order, or reason. (See variations in the examples. Fixed order.) The teacher said my report was disorganized. My paragraphs seemed to be without rhyme or reason. Everything you do seems to be without rhyme or reason.

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? References in classic literature
They were in a hurry enough to start us, and now here we stand in the middle of a field without rhyme or reason. War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context And then, without rhyme or reason, all sceptical, my mind flew back to a small biographical note in the red-bound Who's Who, and I said to myself, "She was born in Cambridge, and she is twenty-seven years old. The Sea Wolf by London, Jack View in context Without rhyme or reason he was prepared to carry out his threat to kick Harley Kennan to death. Michael, Brother of Jerry by London, Jack View in context More results

? References in classic literature

They were in a hurry enough to start us, and now here we stand in the middle of a field without rhyme or reason.

War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

And then, without rhyme or reason, all sceptical, my mind flew back to a small biographical note in the red-bound Who's Who, and I said to myself, "She was born in Cambridge, and she is twenty-seven years old.

The Sea Wolf by London, Jack View in context

Without rhyme or reason he was prepared to carry out his threat to kick Harley Kennan to death.

Michael, Brother of Jerry by London, Jack View in context

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