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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Example Sentences

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

From Seattle Times • May 14, 2024

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

Poor Romney — right as rain, yet nobody can spare an umbrella.

From Washington Post • Feb. 11, 2020

They’ll fix you up as right as rain if there’s something in it for them.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

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