for some reason en · ADV
Meanings
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Expressing uncertainty for the cause or justification of some event or happening.
Ripper says, “Men do seem to like her for some reason.” Myrtle responds sarcastically, “I can think of three reasons—38- 24-36. Yiish!”
2013, Tom Lisanti, Drive-in Dream Girls: A Galaxy of B-Movie Starlets of the Sixties, →ISBN:Now when I was a kid I had a bike with a banana seat, but for some reason, as you get older, and you get bikes, it's like you can never go back to those awesome seats of yore.
2022 June 14, “Tesla Split and Cybertruck Details”, in Tesla Time News:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| for some reason or other | alternative | lexicographic |
Translations (20)
pt por algum motivo (Translations) · fi jonkin takia (Translations) · hu valamiért (Translations) · uk чому́сь (Translations) · ta ஏனோ (Translations) · ru почему́-то (Translations) · de aus irgendeinem Grund (Translations) · fr pour une raison ou pour une autre (Translations) · de irgendwie (Translations) · fr pour on ne sait quelle raison (Translations) · fr bizarrement (Translations) · fr pour une raison que j'ignore (Translations) · sv av någon anledning (Translations) · nl om een of andere reden (Translations) · uk з яко́їсь причи́ни (Translations) · ru по како́й-то причи́не (Translations) · pl nie wiedzieć czemu (Translations) · fr allez savoir pourquoi (Translations) · tr nedense (Translations) · fi jostain syystä (Translations)