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Thread #59418   Message #1396570
Posted By: Bee-dubya-ell
02-Feb-05 - 01:06 AM
Thread Name: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
What the hell does "stands to reason" mean? Everybody says it, but do we just say it because everybody else says it? Wouldn't "withstands the test of reason" be more accurate? I mean "stands to reason" makes no grammatical sense. "Stands to pee" makes grammatical sense, but not "stands to reason".