English Explanatory Dictionary

rhyme or reason

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Logic; common sense.

Pronunciation

En-au-rhyme or reason.ogg

Word forms

rhyme or reason rhyme nor reason

Etymology

Calque of Middle French n'y avoir ryme ne raison (Eustache Deschamps), attributed to the poet Edmund Spenser in a conversation with Queen Elizabeth I.

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