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right as rain (not comparable)
- (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.
1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 63:
‘I’ve just made the rounds,’ he said, ‘and everything looks as right as rain.’
1999, Frank McCourt, Tis: A Memoir, page 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.
- (simile, colloquial) Correct; factually accurate.
1894, Robert Barr, chapter 23, in In the Midst of Alarms:
"To whom are you engaged? As I understand your talk, it is to Miss Bartlett. Am I right?"
"Right as rain, Renny."
very good; healthy
- Chinese:
- Finnish: terve kuin pukki (fi) (healthy)
- Polish: zdrów jak ryba (pl)
- Russian: здоро́вый (ru) (zdoróvyj)
- Spanish: como nuevo
- Ukrainian: здоро́вий (zdoróvyj)