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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, 鈥淭he expression 'right as rain' must have been invented by an Englishman.鈥 It was first recorded in 1894.Example Sentences
鈥淗e鈥檒l be right as rain when he comes home,鈥 a fire department captain assured Payne鈥檚 mother.
"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."
Patzert developed a reputation of being 鈥渁s right as rain鈥 on El Ni帽o- and La Ni帽a-influenced weather patterns, but he was among those who bet on a wet winter in California in 2015鈥16.
鈥淢y name is Nan Johnson, not ma鈥檃m. My call was an overreaction. I鈥檓 fine. Right as rain.鈥
I stared at her shoes, wishing that when I looked up, it鈥檇 be Nan standing there, right as rain just like she鈥檇 said.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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