righter than rain
righter than rain is the alternative form of right as rain.
Meaning of right as rain
Adjective
right as rain (not comparable)
- Very good; all in order; healthy.
- So I went to him [William Makepeace Thackeray] while he was at breakfast in Onslow Square, on the morning of the banquet, and asked him if the speech was "all right." "As right as rain," he replied.1894, George Augustus Sala, “The Real Thackeray”, in Things I Have Seen and People I Have Known […], volume I, London; Paris: Cassell and Company […], →OCLC, page 32
- Correct; factually accurate.
- "To whom are you engaged? As I understand your talk, it is to Miss Bartlett. Am I right?" / "Right as rain, Renny."1894, Robert Barr, chapter 23, in In the Midst of Alarms
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