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right as rain

RYT az RAYN

raɪt æz reɪn

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rightasrain

Dictionary meaning

in perfectly good health or working order; completely recovered from illness or injury and feeling entirely normal again; a simile that uses the abundance and naturalness of rain to convey completeness and rightness; the alliteration of right and rain has made this one of the most durable health idioms in British English, in use since at least the late nineteenth century

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