Right as Rain

August 15th, 2011 by admin

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  1. Marcus:

    August 25th, 2011 at 9:30 am

    ‘All Gas and Gaiters’ was the name of a comedy series on the BBC in the late 60s/early 70s about senior church officials of exactly that description. Wikipedia has all the nerdy details for anyone interested, and you can sometimes catch repeats of the radio version on the BBC iPlayer (radio4extra). It is from that school of British humour that gets called ‘gentle’, i.e. a side-splitter it ain’t!

  2. Right as Rain | Bon Mots:

    April 10th, 2013 at 9:54 pm

    [...] been a variety of “right as” expressions. Frankly, they’re odd.  Here are a few, courtesy of Word Detective: right as a gun, right as a nail, right as a trivet, and my favorite, right as a book (that one [...]

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