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RIGHT AS A TRIVET

Specialty Definition: RIGHT AS A TRIVET

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Right as a Trivet The trivet is a metallic plate-stand with three legs. Some fasten to the fender and are designed to hold the plate of hot toast, etc. (Anglo-Saxon, thryfot, three-foot, tripod.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: RIGHT AS A TRIVET

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Dueness

Fitting; correct, proper, meet, befitting, becoming, seemly; decorous; creditable, up to the mark, right as a trivet; just the thing, quite the thing; selon les r

Perfection

Adjective: perfect, faultless; indefective, indeficient, indefectible; immaculate, spotless, impeccable; free from imperfection; unblemished, uninjured; sound, sound as a roach; in perfect condition; scathless, intact, harmless; seaworthy; (safe); right as a trivet; in seipso totus teres atque rotundus; consummate; (complete); finished.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Expression: RIGHT AS A TRIVET

Expression using "RIGHT AS A TRIVET": as right as a trivet. Additional references.

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Modern Translation: RIGHT AS A TRIVET

Language Translations for "RIGHT AS A TRIVET"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

in schönster Ordnung (as right as a rivet, as right as a trivet). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

εντάξει (all right, alright, as right as a trivet, ok). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

legnagyobb rendben van (as right as a trivet, to be in perfect trim). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ightray asay aay ivettray

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Anagrams: RIGHT AS A TRIVET

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-h-i-i-r-r-s-t-t-t-v"

-4 letters: gravitates, straighter.

-5 letters: agitative, arriviste, arteritis, arthritis, earthstar, gravitate, gravities, grittiest, hatterias, irrigates, irritates, sagittate, tartrates, thirstier, titivates, tritheist, veratrias.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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1. Expressions
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
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