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’s a perfect storm of low supply and high demand—and it figures to earn Willis a fabulous payday.

From The Wall Street Journal

If he does, it figures to come at an extremely steep cost for a starting pitcher with one year remaining of team control.

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