right as rain

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1. (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.

2. (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."

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