rhyme or reason

[rhyme or reason] {n. phr.}

A good plan or reason; a reasonable purpose or explanation. — Used in negative, interrogative, or conditional sentences.

* /Don could see no rhyme or reason to the plot of the play./

* /It seemed to Ruth that her little brother had temper tantrums without rhyme or reason./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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