What does “right as rain” mean?

Where it comes from

British, in print by the second half of the 1800s. Nobody knows why rain; the likeliest reason is that it sounds good, the same alliteration behind “fit as a fiddle”.

What I think of “right as rain”

• Right as rain: only the British would pick rain as the gold standard for feeling fine.

• Right as rain, as in reliably there and slightly damp.

• Nothing is as right as rain except rain, and even rain gets it wrong sometimes.

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