Where Does the Expression as Right as Ninepence Come from?

It has been suggested it comes from the game of skittles or ninepins, but The Phrase Finder has found the first reference in a book of English proverbs from 1659: “as fine as fippence, as neat as nine pence.”

What does right as Ninepence meaning?

: Can anybody tell me where the saying "as right as ninepence" came from? According to Brewer, this is a corruption of 'nice/right as nine-pins'. 'Nine-pins' is a game (skittles) in which the nine 'men' are set up with precise exactitude in three rows.

Who coined the phrase right as rain?

The allusion in this simile is unclear, but it originated in Britain, where rainy weather is a normal fact of life, and indeed W.L. Phelps wrote, “The expression 'right as rain' must have been invented by an Englishman.” It was first recorded in 1894.