right as rain
Example Sentences
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"We thought, give him some sleep and a bit of Calpol and by the morning he'd be right as rain."
From BBC • May 10, 2025
“He’ll be right as rain when he comes home,” a fire department captain assured Payne’s mother.
From Seattle Times • May 14, 2024
We use meteorological metaphors to describe affective states, such as feeling under the weather, right as rain or on cloud nine.
From Scientific American • Aug. 20, 2021
Poor Romney — right as rain, yet nobody can spare an umbrella.
From Washington Post • Feb. 11, 2020
In a temperate zone it’s the most natural thing in the world, right as rain, to grow fields of waving grain.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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