right as rain

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.

Example Sentences

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

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

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"They couldn't make sense of it... this young woman who apparently several hours earlier had been as right as rain was dying slowly in front of their eyes and they couldn't work out why."

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Patzert developed a reputation of being “as right as rain” on El Niño- and La Niña-influenced weather patterns, but he was among those who bet on a wet winter in California in 2015–16.

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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.

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