right as rain

Idioms  

1. In good order or good health, satisfactory, as in He was very ill, but he's right as rain now, or If she'd only worked on it another week everything would have been as right as rain. The allusion in this simile is unclear, but it originated in Britain, where rainy weather is a normal fact of life, and indeed W.L. Phelps wrote, “The expression 'right as rain' must have been invented by an Englishman.” It was first recorded in 1894.

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right as rain

“He’ll be right as rain when he comes home,” a fire department captain assured Payne’s mother.

From Seattle Times ● May 14, 2024

Roughly ten minutes later Trump went from blind rage to interview mode, and all seemed right as rain.

From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2022

We use meteorological metaphors to describe affective states, such as feeling under the weather, right as rain or on cloud nine.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 20, 2021

He brought the president back, as right as rain.

From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2020

“He’s out in the parlor right now looking at TV. Every afternoon, as right as rain, he looks at that show where them kids dance.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

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