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right as rain 

(Chiefly UK)

1. Healthy, feeling well.

2. Satisfactory, okay, a good outcome. Used to describe a situation that's been sorted out, or turned out okay.

May be derived from the fact that is rains so much in the UK that rain is just a normal fact of life.
1. "I see you're really sick with the flu. Please, get some rest, and I'll bring you some chicken soup. Soon, you'll be right as rain."

2. "She had lots of challenges in school. But, she studied really hard so by graduation everything was right as rain."
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right as rain 

You can believe it to be true.
A common response to the comeback, "yeah, right."
Dad: Better watch it or I'm gonna make you come home early.

Kid: Yeah, right!

Dad: Right as rain, buddy.
right as rain by Tim Steffen August 8, 2005

Right as rain 

1. means that someone feels well again after being ill

OR
2.You got something correct
1.

A: how are you?
B: i'm right as rain

2. {usually in a test or being asked a question]
A (usually a wise person/teacher): what is 146x37? Do you know the answer?
B: It's 5402
A: Right as rain!

talk right as rain 

something is just usual but you talk as if only you knew it.
Chris: If there is no change, this month is December.
Lisa: you talk right as rain!

bang a you-ee 

of Massachusetts orig. "to make a u-turn"
hey, we missed the bar, bang a you-ee
Word of the Day on July 19, 2026
The word 'flag' as pronounced by people with thick Belfast accents. The term is a perfect encapsulation of the disproportionate and overblown reaction to the removal of the Union Jack (as in 'de fleg') from above City Hall in Belfast. Where previously it had flown for 365 days per year, it is now flown on 17 designated days of the year - in line with many other British cities.

The event caused a portion of the Protestant community ('fleggers') to make international pricks of themselves as they proceeded to wreck the fucking place, claiming it was another erosion of a 'British' identity they perceive to have been under attack since the horrifying spectre of equality reared its head in Northern Ireland.

The word 'fleg' - and indeed 'fleggers' - fittingly describes a section of humanity unconcerned with knowledge, reality or the vagaries of the English language. Like America's tea-baggers they are ruled by instinct, fear and paranoia with a side dish of rampant bigotry and startling ignorance of the world around them.
"Wat de fuck like! The taigs got de fleg took down! Let's wreck de fuckin place! No surrender!"

"De fleg has been took down! Before ye know it there'll be a united Ireland! Attack Short Strand! God Save The Queen!"
Fleg by OnionFleg August 9, 2013
Word of the Day on July 18, 2026
To take something small, that doesn't quite qualify as a theft. Probably from the Danish "skæv" or the Dutch "scheef", both of which are pronounced similarly, meaning "askew, or not quite right'. To change an item's ownership without permission, but only something small and of little worth.
"I skeefed an apple off the neighbor's tree." "I skeefed some chips outta your bag when you looked away." "Don't skeef my chair when I go to the bathroom."
Skeef by kachinaflonk July 16, 2026
Word of the Day on July 17, 2026