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Also, that figures . It's (or that's) reasonable; it makes sense. For example, Hanging it upside down sounds like a weird idea, but it figures , or It figures that they won't be coming this year , or So she's complaining again; that figures . This idiom alludes to reckoning up numbers. [ Colloquial ; mid-1900s]

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April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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