Crossword clues for mixed blessing
mixed blessing
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n. (context idiomatic English) Something that has both good and bad features.
Usage examples of "mixed blessing".
The police department saw Marcone as a mixed blessing, after years of merciless struggle and bloody exchanges with the Vargassis.
Nora's gift was not a mere mixed blessing, but could also rightly be called a curse.
Occasionally, though, he considered that a mixed blessing, as with today, when his pig decided to behave like a pig and take it into its head that plowing was beneath its station.
I might as well be honest with you: 'Mixed blessing' is about as good as it's likely to get.
There are times when he thinks that much family is a very mixed blessing and I know for a fact Neelie does.
Tran's methedrine ran out (mixed blessing--it killed 3 slaves) & we had a slow week (late Feb.
Skirmishes with Somali irregulars along a disputed border and battles with Ethiopian Army units in the Djilbabo Plain had eventually cut off the southward flow of the dispossessed, a rather mixed blessing, if a blessing at all.