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

"We thought, give him some sleep and a bit of Calpol and by the morning he'd be right as rain."

From BBC ● May 10, 2025

“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

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

From Washington Post ● Feb. 11, 2020

I stared at her shoes, wishing that when I looked up, it’d be Nan standing there, right as rain just like she’d said.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

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