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it figures
It figures.
It makes sense.; It confirms what one might have guessed.; I'm not surprised. Bob: Tom was the one who broke the window. Bill: It figures. He's very careless. Ann: Mary was the last one to arrive. Sally: It figures. She's always late.
it figures
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]
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Aalis | | - | Medieval French |
Joel | | ['dʒəuəl] | |
Martta | | MAHRT-tah | Finnish |
Rangi | | - | Maori, Polynesian Mythology |
Hedvig | | - | Swedish, Norwegian, Danish |
Kirils | | - | Latvian |