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no rhyme or reason

phraseC1Not compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

No rhyme or reason means no sense or pattern to it whatsoever. There is no rhyme or reason to it.

It complains about a system rather than a decision, since one decision can simply be wrong. To say there is no rhyme or reason is stronger than saying something is unfair.

Definitions of no rhyme or reason

  1. 1phraseno rhyme or reasonNo sense or pattern to it whatsoever.C1

    “There was no rhyme or reason to which streets were cleared first.”

no rhyme or reason is a phrase.

Also accepted in games: neither rhyme nor reason

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