neither rhyme nor reason
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There is neither rhyme nor reason on Twitter; just a lot of shouting by folk in a semi-aroused state of permanent outrage.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 20, 2017
My brother commended the lines as lacking neither rhyme nor reason, but he questioned the propriety of alluding to a lady's appetite, and protested strongly against the use of that abject word--worm.
From Bunch Grass A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch by Horace Annesley Vachell
Unless life be utterly abortive, having neither rhyme nor reason, the soul of man is itself the one sure proof and prophet of its own high faith.
From The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry by Joseph Fort Newton
There is neither rhyme nor reason in it.
From Harper's Round Table, September 10, 1895 by Various
In short, there seemed to be neither rhyme nor reason, as Larry said, in the fact that they should be continually getting out of the frying-pan into the fire.
From Lost in the Forest Wandering Will's Adventures in South America by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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