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right as rain en · ADJ

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (colloquial, not-comparable, qualifier:simile) Very good; all in order; healthy.
    • I've just made the rounds,’ he said, ‘and everything looks as right as rain. 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 63:
    • 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. 1999, Frank McCourt, Tis: A Memoir, page 322:
    • So I went to him [William Makepeace Thackeray] 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. 1894, George Augustus Sala, “The Real Thackeray”, in Things I Have Seen and People I Have Known […], volume I, London; Paris: Cassell and Company […], →OCLC, page 32:
    • Five questions. Now, I know you’re sleepy, but I just bet it’ll make you feel right as rain. 2022 February 18, Dan Erickson, “Good News About Hell”, in Severance, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Mark S. (Adam Scott):
  2. (informal, not-comparable, qualifier:simile) Correct; factually accurate.
    • "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, chapter 23, in In the Midst of Alarms:
    • Look, you got nothin' to worry about. The review committee said you were right as rain on that shooting. I got no reason to doubt it. 2001, George Pelecanos, Right as Rain, →ISBN, page 103:

Synonyms

right as a trivet · right as ninepence · righter than rain

Translations (14)

cmn 非常好 (very good; healthy) · es más razón que un santo (correct; factually accurate) · fi tosi kuin vesi (correct; factually accurate) · fi terve kuin pukki (very good; healthy) · uk здоро́вий (very good; healthy) · nl klopt als een bus (correct; factually accurate) · pl właściwy (correct; factually accurate) · ru здоро́вый (very good; healthy) · cmn 十分準確 /十分准确 (correct; factually accurate) · ru ве́рный (correct; factually accurate) · es como nuevo (very good; healthy) · cmn 非常健康 (very good; healthy) · pl zdrów jak ryba (very good; healthy) · pl poprawny (correct; factually accurate)