Where does the expression 'Right as Rain' come from?

Answer 1

Perhaps surprisingly, there have been expressions starting right as ... since medieval times, always in the sense of something being satisfactory, safe, secure or comfortable. An early example, quoted as a proverb as long ago as 1546, is right as a line. In that, right might have had a literal sense of straightness, something desirable in a line, but it also clearly has a figurative sense of being correct or acceptable. There’s an even older example, from the Romance of the Rose of 1400: “right as an adamant”, where an adamant was a lodestone or magnet.

Right as rain appears to be a latecomer to this illustrious collection of curious similes. It may have first appeared at the very end of the nineteenth century, but the first example I have heard such expressions as “He looked, as himself would undoubtedly have said, ‘fit as a fiddle,’ or ‘right as rain.

In essence.. I believe that this expression was used years ago and is now.. shall we say.. "outdated"... My OWN personal feeling is that it was an OLD expression used in the rain forests area where it rained every day.. so the expression might be yes, right as rain meaning that as sure as the rain will come, it is true, etc etc.. BUT.. in the desert areas, this would not work

Answer 2

Right as rain is a latecomer to this illustrious collection of curious similes. It may have first appeared at the very end of the nineteenth century, but the first example I can find is from Max Beerbohm’s book Yet Again of 1909: “He looked, as himself would undoubtedly have said, ‘fit as a fiddle,’ or ‘right as rain.’ His cheeks were rosy, his eyes sparkling”. Since then it has almost completely taken over from the others.

Rain is considered by some to be pure and cleansing. "Right as rain" would mean that everything is ok and in harmony.

Answer 3

Perhaps its basic meaning can be expressed as “straight as rain”, or “straight as rain falls”, aside from effects winds may have. Years ago, people used to call straight lines in English “right lines”, derived no doubt from the Latin linea recta, the term once in common use. The words “right” and “recta” appear to have come from an Indo-European root which means “to move in a straight line.” So geometric straightness is associated with correctness of judgment.

Answer 4

Could have come from the Noah story.
God made it rain to make the world be right again.

Answer 5

Life revolves around the rain. It disrupts people , but without it we grow nothing

Answer 6

It is the ultimate cleanness

Answer 7

i made it up