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rhyme or rea·son
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rhyme or reasonnoun
Logic. Common sense.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Rhyme or reason
Number or sense.
I was promis’d on a time,
To have reason for my rhyme;
But from that time unto this season,
I had neither rhyme nor reason. Edmund Spenser.The guiltiness of my mind drove the grossness of the foppery into a received belief, in despight of the teeth of all rhime and reason, that they were fairies. William Shakespeare.
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Rhyme or Reason
Rhyme or Reason is a song from Eminems eighth studio album The Marshall Mathers LP 2. The song concerns the abandonment by Eminem's father of his wife and Eminem when he was born. Produced by the album's executive producer Rick Rubin, the song contains samples of The Zombies' "Time of the Season" from their 1968 album Odessey and Oracle. The song received positive reviews from music critics.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of rhyme or reason in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of rhyme or reason in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of rhyme or reason in a Sentence
I need access to the platform, the fact that Twitter is suspending me for no rhyme or reason is insane.
What we're challenging is the haphazard lack of legal procedure. There's no rhyme or reason to it.
This is the 9th time that Adam and I have had to do what we are doing right now and it never gets easier, sometimes there is just no rhyme or reason to who moves on.
During the first six weeks of the year you had no rhyme or reason for the way stocks were selling.
They float. They tend to go wherever the water goes. We’ve recovered them from yards, from levees, from underneath stairwells, there’s no rhyme or reason, really, to where they come to rest, and then it’s kind of our logistical problem to figure out how to get them out of there.
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