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silver lining
Word definitions for silver lining in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
a "bright side" which proverbially accompanies even the darkest trouble; by 1843, apparently from oft-quoted lines from Milton's "Comus," where the silver lining is the light of the moon shining from behind the cloud.\n\nWas I deceived? or did a sable cloud\n ...
Wikipedia
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Silver Lining is a Big Finish Productions audio drama featuring Lisa Bowerman as Bernice Summerfield , a character from the spin-off media based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who . Silver Lining was given away free ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a consoling aspect of a difficult situation; "every cloud has a silver lining"; "look on the bright side of it" [syn: bright side ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context figurative English) A good aspect of a mostly bad event.
Usage examples of silver lining.
And during that particularly hot summer when someone set fire to his runner beans, Every cloud has a silver lining.
Isaac Newton had discovered that for every action there is an opposite reaction Popular wisdom declared that every dark cloud has a silver lining.
As black a picture as man could paint: points out that this is just a complicated way of committing suicide: no silver lining, no promises, even Alex, thrown in as a casual afterthought.
It was a small silver lining compared to the troubled clouds I'd been floundering through, but it was something, and it lasted all the way up the escalator.
Hadn't Pegeen's people always said of her, during her father's reign, that Pegeen the Illuminator could put a silver lining in any cloud?
He was back in the Terry before he realized this wonderful silver lining had a cloud.