Crossword clues for silver lining
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
Turn forth her silver lining on the night?\n
I did not err, there does a sable cloud,\n
Turn out her silver lining on the night\n
And casts a gleam over this tufted grove.\n\nTo which Thomas Warton added the commentary: "When all succour ſeems to be lost, Heaven unexpectedly presents the ſilver lining oſ a ſable cloud to the virtuous."
Wiktionary
n. (context figurative English) A good aspect of a mostly bad event.
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]
Wikipedia
Silver Lining is the fourteenth album by Bonnie Raitt, released in 2002 (see 2002 in music).
Silver Lining, A Silver Lining or The Silver Lining may refer to:
- Silver lining (idiom), a metaphor for optimism in the common English-language idiom "Every cloud has a silver lining"
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 with Doctor Who Magazine #351. Although a stand-alone adventure, Silver Lining theoretically fits into Season 5 of the Bernice Summerfield adventures from Big Finish Productions. Silver Lining occupies the fourteenth to twenty-first tracks of the CD, the first thirteen being occupied by UNIT: The Coup, and the twenty-second to thirty-third occupied by promotions for various Big Finish Productions Doctor Who and Bernice Summerfield audio plays.
"Silver Lining (Crazy ‘Bout You)" is a song recorded by English singer-songwriter Jessie J. The track written by Diane Warren is the main theme of the film Silver Linings Playbook. The song with gentle piano melody was released on iTunes on 16 November 2012.
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.