rhy Idiom

no rhyme or reason

no sense, no logical plan There's no rhyme or reason to the game of golf. It's stupid!

rhyme or reason

(See no rhyme or reason)

without rhyme or reason

Idiom(s): 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.

neither rhyme nor reason|reason|rhyme

n. phr. No emotional or intellectual substance. As far as I am concerned, his proposal makes no sense; it has neither rhyme nor reason.

rhyme or reason|reason|rhyme

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.

neither rhyme nor reason

neither rhyme nor reason
see rhyme or reason, no.

rhyme

rhyme
rhyme or reason
order or sense: preceded by without, no, etc.

rhyme or reason, no

rhyme or reason, no
An absence of common sense or reasonableness, as in This memo has no rhyme or reason. Closely related variants are without rhyme or reason, as in The conclusion of her paper was without rhyme or reason, and neither rhyme nor reason, as in Neither rhyme nor reason will explain that lawyer's objections. This term originated in French about 1475 and began to be used in English about a century later. Sir Thomas More is credited with saying of a mediocre book that a friend had put into verse, “Now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; whereas before it was neither rhyme nor reason.”