right as rain
Adjective
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Adjective
right as rain (comparative righter than rain, superlative -)
- (simile, colloquial) Very good; all in order; healthy.
- 1894, George Augustus Sala, Things I Have Seen and People I Have Known:
- So I went to him [Thackeray d. 1863] while he was at breakfast in Onslow Square, on the morning of the banquet, and asked him if the speech was " all right." "As right as rain," he replied.
- 1999, Frank McCourt, Tis: A Memoir, p. 322:
- Malachy brought me aspirins and vitamins and told me I'd be as right as rain in the morning and I wondered what that meant, right as rain.
- 1894, George Augustus Sala, Things I Have Seen and People I Have Known:
- (simile, colloquial) Correct; factually accurate.
- 1894, Robert Barr, In the Midst of Alarms, ch. 23:
- "To whom are you engaged? As I understand your talk, it is to Miss Bartlett. Am I right?"
- "Right as rain, Renny."
- 1894, Robert Barr, In the Midst of Alarms, ch. 23:
- Russian: здоро́вый
- Spanish: como nuevo
- Russian: ве́рный
- Spanish: más razón que un santo
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