right as rain

Idioms and Phrases

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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