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Frogfish Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

Every cloud has a silver lining

Can you please explain me the above sentence's meaning? Thank you so much.
  

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The clouds represent bad times, times when there is a lot of trouble. The silver lining is the hope that things are not as bad as they seen and the situation will get better.

  • The clouds represent bad times, times when there is a lot of trouble.
  • The silver lining is the hope that things are not as bad as they seen and the situation will get better.
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The clouds represent bad times, times when there is a lot of trouble.

The silver lining is the hope that things are not as bad as they seen and the situation will get better.
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Hi,

It means:

You can derive some benefit from every bad thing that happens to you. (You can also refer to the silver lining of a particular cloud, the benefit you can derive from a particular misfortune.)

E.g: I'm sorry your business is going badly, but don't despair. Every cloud has a silver lining. When Mary's friends visited her in the hospital, they tried to che

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