right as rain
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Meaning · English
Needed, appropriate, essential, or hoped-for; also has come to mean perfect, well, or absolutely right.
Where it’s used:
Used
Widespread English
Examples
They had checked similar seats that had been subjected to the rough and tumble of Metropolitan Police life, and ones that had supported over 70,000 miles, and they were all right as rain.
I'll be right as rain now we're home.
British National Corpus sentence via the MAGPIE corpus (CC BY 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30)
Sources & notes
Imported from Wikipedia “English-language idioms” (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-29), pending review.
Common questions
What does “right as rain” mean?
Needed, appropriate, essential, or hoped-for; also has come to mean perfect, well, or absolutely right.
Is “right as rain” formal or informal?
No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.