the whys and wherefores

The whys and wherefores only become clear very late in the game.

They also said the administration has not provided them with the whys and wherefores of the move.

How could I stop to examine the whys and wherefores?

But do we really know enough about the whys and wherefores of racism?

A. It is hard to parse out the whys and wherefores.

Who besides them can hope to understand the whys and wherefores of the world?"

"The whys and wherefores are being delineated now," he said.

Somehow when he was near, the whys and wherefores seemed unimportant.

When I explain the whys and wherefores, they suddenly lose interest, it is not an interesting story any more.

Not a clue as to the whys and wherefores.

Without stopping to figure out the whys and wherefores.

His questions on the whys and wherefores proved futile.

"The whys and wherefores of the match don't matter, if it's a happy one."

'All right, we'll not go into the whys and wherefores just now.

"But we still do not know the whys and wherefores," said Martine, frowning.

Don't waste time trying to puzzle out the whys and wherefores; they're old news now.

I just gave you the whys and wherefores.

The whys and wherefores were incidental and of no consequence.

The whys and wherefores seemed not to matter in places where a breeze was the only air-conditioning needed yesterday.

For the next hour the three men talked, each telling his story, and trying to explain the whys and wherefores of what he had seen.

She seemed ready to face anything and didn't seem concerned with the whys and wherefores.

He'll wear himself out, puzzling through the whys and wherefores of this.'

"I've been concentrating more on getting Aldo, not the whys and wherefores.

Mr. Hopkins is conversant in all the whys and wherefores of oil.

This is not the place to analyse the whys and wherefores of John's call from one denomination into another movement.