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词组 without rhyme or reason
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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.
idiomwithout rhyme or reason(also there is no rhyme or reason (to/for sth))used in order to emphasize that you cannot think of a reason why someone did something or why something happened:She had been so happy and then, without rhyme or reason, her marriage to Tonio was forbidden.There seems to be no rhyme or reason for the changes and contradictions in government policy.

without rhyme or reason

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.

neither rhyme nor reason

No 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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