it figures

Idioms  

1. Also, that figures. It's (or that's) reasonable; it makes sense. For example, Hanging it upside down sounds like a weird idea, but it figures, or It figures that they won't be coming this year, or So she's complaining again; that figures. This idiom alludes to reckoning up numbers. [Colloquial; mid-1900s]

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Example Sentences

It figures, because that last county administration was the worst in history.

From Los Angeles Times

"Your argument says 'we get to keep on doing it until everyone who is potentially harmed by it figures out how to file a lawsuit, hire a lawyer, etc,'" Jackson said.

From BBC

It figures to be an ongoing process, one that could have season-defining implications for the Dodgers’ World Series title defense.

From Los Angeles Times

As she put it to Sauer: “Let’s assume for the purpose of this that you are wrong about the merits, that the government is not allowed to do this under the Constitution. It seems to me that your argument is: ‘We get to keep on doing it until everyone who is potentially harmed by it figures out how to file a lawsuit, hire a lawyer, etc.’

From Slate

It figures to be another tense game.

From Los Angeles Times