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Default Re: Our customer demanded we / asked us to

Odd. When I wrote the answer, the last sentence of the first paragraph ran There's no rhyme nor reason for it as far as I know. But I deleted it as I wondered if rhyme or reason might be a British expression and be a bit distracting.

But as you used it in the reply, it's clearly not. I wonder what the origin is? Rhyme here presumably stands for regularity so it makes sense ... but I wonder where it came from?
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