词组 | without rhyme or reason |
释义 | Idiom without rhyme or reason Theme: RANDOMNESS 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.This procedure is without rhyme or reason. Idiom without rhyme or reason no rhyme or reason - if there is no rhyme or reason why something happens, there is no obvious explanation for it.Changes have been made to the text without rhyme or reason. without rhyme or reasonCliché 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. neither rhyme nor reasonNo sense whatever. This term dates from the fifteenth century, when an unknown French writer wrote, En toy ne Ryme ne Raison (“In you neither rhyme nor reason,” Maistre Pierre Pathelin, ca. 1475). Sir Thomas More is credited with the following remark made to a friend who had put into verse a mediocre book: “Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; whereas before it was neither rhyme nor reason.” The term made it into John Ray’s proverb collection of 1678 and is by no means obsolete. |
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