Silver Lining

Definition: Silver Lining

Silver Lining

Noun

1. A consoling aspect of a difficult situation; "every cloud has a silver lining"; "look on the bright side of it".

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Literature

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Synonym: Silver Lining

Compensation

Phrase: " light is mingled with the gloom "; every dark cloud has a silver lining; primo avulso non deficit alter; saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas.

Hope

Phrase: nil desperandum; never say die, dum spiro spero, latet scintillula forsan, all is for the best, spero meliora; every cloud has a silver lining; " the wish being father to the thought"; "hope told a flattering tale"; rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis.

Beam of hope, ray of hope, gleam of hope, glimmer of hope, flash of hope, dawn of hope, star of hope; cheer; bit of blue sky, silver lining, silver lining of the cloud, bottom of Pandora's box, balm in Gilead; light at the end of the tunnel.

Crosswords: Silver Lining

We could break a silver lining (A Sorta Fairytale; performing artist: Tori Amos)

Keep your head in the clouds. You're the first to know when it rains, and it's easier to see the silver lining. (references; author: unknown)

Look for the Silver Lining (1949)

The Silver Lining (1932)

Every Silver Lining (1993)

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Books

• Renewing Family Life: In Search of a Silver Lining (reference)

• Silver Lining (Zebra Bouquet Romances, No 60) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• The Carbon Copy Silver Lining (reference)

• Hi-Ho Silver Lining (reference)

• Silver Lining (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Koala Baby Bookends - Silver Lining (reference)

• Koala Baby 2-pack Flannel Blanket - Silver Lining - White (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Too much silver lining, or the Democratic black crook. Credit: Library of Congress.

The silver lining --. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Expressions using "silver lining": every cloud has a silver lining ♦ every cloud has its silver lining ♦ every dark cloud has a silver lining. Additional references.

Czech

všechno zlé je pro nìco dobré (every cloud has a silver lining). (various references)

German

Silberstreifen. (various references)

Hungarian

vigasz (balm, cheer, comfort, consolation, grain of consolation, solace), valami jó. (various references)

Italian

lato positivo. (various references)

Pig Latin

ilversay ininglay

Romanian

vine iarã vreme bunã (every cloud has its silver lining), dupã ploaie şi furtunã (every cloud has its silver lining). (various references)

Spanish

resquicio de esperanza, rayo de luz. (various references)

Turkish

umut ışığı (a glimmer of hope, gleam of hope), bulutun kenarındaki beyazlık. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: snivelling.

-3 letters: silvering, slivering, sniveling.

-4 letters: enisling, ensiling, invirile, livening, nervings, relining, reliving, resiling, resining, reviling, revising, riesling, snelling, veilings, veinings, villeins.

-5 letters: gillers, gillies, ginners, ginnier, girlies, grilles, inliers, insigne, irising, lensing, lignins, lingers, lingier, linings, liviers, livings, nerving, nilling, reining, reiving, rilievi, rilling, rinsing, seining, selling, serving, sieving, sillier, silvern, slinger, veiling.