What is right about rain?

Question

assuming you're not in a drought area

Answer 1

rain will wash away all the pollutants and dust from air (thats why u are normally advised to not to get wet in the first rain)....so that u get pollution free environment...

it fills river ponds....(have u ever thought about how u get water..for daily use)...thus in rainy season dams get filled so that u can use it in summer

its a part of water cycle...if it is absent then cycle will not be completed..

if u still feel rain is not that useful..then get a girlfriend and kiss her in a heavy rain..how romantic it will be....huh

Answer 2

I don't know but the expression "as right as rain" means perfectly all right; completely well.

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.

Lots of others have followed in the centuries since. There’s right as a gun, which appeared in one of John Fletcher’s plays, Prophetess, in 1622. Right as my leg is also from the seventeenth century — it’s in Sir Thomas Urquhart’s translation of Gargantua and Pantagruel, by Rabelais, published in 1664: “Some were young, quaint, clever, neat, pretty, juicy, tight, brisk, buxom, proper, kind-hearted, and as right as my leg, to any man’s thinking”. There’s right as a trivet from the nineteenth century, a trivet being a stand for a pot or kettle placed over an open fire; this may be found in Charles Dickens’s Pickwick Papers of 1837: “ ‘I hope you are well, sir.’ ‘Right as a trivet, sir,’ replied Bob Sawyer.” About the same time, or a little later, people were saying that things were as right as ninepence, as right as a book, as right as nails, or as right as the bank.

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.

It makes no more sense than the variants it has usurped and is clearly just a play on words (though perhaps there’s a lurking idea that rain often comes straight down, in a right line, to use the old sense). But the alliteration was undoubtedly why it was created and has helped its survival. As right as ninepence has had a good run, too, but that has vanished even in Britain since we decimalised the coinage and since ninepence stopped being worth very much.

Answer 3

When it's lashing out you can be a child again and run around soaked to the skin jumping into puddles. Then you get to do the part go home warm shower and get into your pyjamas (if you have one) wrap yourself up and have a cup of tea/coffee/hot chocolate/ hot whiskey. It's great.

And water brings life to plants and people

Answer 4

Everything about rain is right, it feels so refreshing to walk in, ok there are times when very heavy rain is a pain but it is still good to listen to it at night in bed, very soothing.