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Silver lining   /sˈɪlvər lˈaɪnɪŋ/   Listen
Silver lining

noun
1.
A consoling aspect of a difficult situation.  Synonym: bright side.  "Look on the bright side of it"






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"Silver lining" Quotes from Famous Books



... after all. We are thirty million miles nearer to the Sun than we were on the Earth, and the light and heat have to filter through those clouds. They are not at all like Earth clouds from this side. It's the other way about. The silver lining is on this side. Look, there isn't a black or a brown one, or even a grey one, within sight. They are just like a thin mist, lighted by a million of electric lamps. It's a delicious world, and if it isn't inhabited by angels ...
— A Honeymoon in Space • George Griffith



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