rhyme or reason | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,chiefly in the negative)Logic;common sense.Prices vary considerably from one town to another with no apparentrhyme or reason.He would often fly into an unexpected rage withoutrhyme or reason.1992February 2, Ed Zirnheld, “Disappointed”, inGay Community News, volume19, number28, page 4:While many of your essays were interesting, some seemed little more than self-promotion on the part of authors. I wished there had been a central essay to anchor the others or some kind of discernablerhyme or reasonto their placement. As it was, I could not help but feel that it was a mish-mash of unrelated and poorly edited information.

Examples:

EN: Youth can be sad without rhyme or reason.
ES: La juventud puede estar triste, sin rima ni razón.
EN: No rhyme or reason.
ES: Sin ton ni son.
ES: No tiene pies ni cabeza.
EN: Working for a rich man doesn't allow you to spend his money without rhyme or reason.
ES: No porque sea rico tenemos que gastar dinero sin ton nin son.
EN: "On the street, one day, for no rhyme or reason"
ES: "Un día en la calle, sin rima ni razón"
EN: No rhyme or reason for it.
ES: Disparó sin motivo.
EN: Regret to report controlled experiment unable to discover rhyme or reason for earth creatures obliterating each other.
ES: Lamento informar que el experimento controlado no logró descubrir la razón por la cual las criaturas de la Tierra se destruyen unos a otros.
EN: Travelling around the world without rhyme or reason?
ES: Para que andas por el mundo sin ton ni son?
EN: Suddenly, without any rhyme or reason. It's the same with Andrei.
ES: ¡Pues eso es Andrei!
EN: What if we're just a bunch of absurd people who are running around with no rhyme or reason?
ES: ¿Y si sólo fuéramos un puñado de gente absurda corriendo de aquí para allá sin ton ni son?
EN: This client of mine threw herself down a flight of stairs-- threw-- for no rhyme or reason, and now you're telling me that there's been a complication in Karen's operation.
ES: Esta cliente mia se arrojo de las escaleras. Se arrojo. Sin rima o razon.
EN: He'd go into dangerous situations without any rhyme or reason and just improvise.
ES: Se ha metido en una situación peligrosa sin razón ni motivo, solo improvisando.
EN: Because they go from love affair to love affair, fornicating without rhyme or reason,...
ES: Porque se la pasan de aventura en aventura, fornicando sin ton ni son,...
EN: Hell's Bucket. No rhyme or reason to it.
ES: Hell's Bucket, no hay rima o razón para.
EN: - I couldn't believe that before he died he wrote such a touching letter, so perfect... while he'd spent his life rummaging through humanity's garbage, stringing words together without rhyme or reason.
ES: - Que era imposible, antes de morir, ...escribir una carta tan emotiva... y tan perfecta, habiendo dedicado su vida a hurgar en la basura humana, ...para alinear palabras, así como así, sin pies ni cabeza.
EN: I want you to go in and bend and twist that signal... see if there's any rhyme or reason for it.
ES: Quiero que intenten descifrar esa señal... ver si encuentran algo lógico.

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