VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Every cloud has a silver lining

Meaning:

This expression is used to say that there is always something good even in an unpleasant, difficult or even painful situation.

Examples:

  • But every cloud has a silver lining.
  • And every cloud has a silver lining.
  • Remember, every cloud has a silver lining.
  • Ah. They say— they say every cloud has a silver lining.
  • And anyway, every cloud has a silver lining. Tell them you're staying at mine.
  • If there is a bright spot here it is only insofar as every cloud has a silver lining.
  • However, every cloud has a silver lining, as this allows the French to discuss an essential matter.
  • But as that great Englishman, Ken Dodd, once remarked, every cloud has a silver lining, plus VAT.
  • Nevertheless, every cloud has a silver lining. The earthquakes seem to have destroyed houses on the one hand and built bridges between Greece and Turkey on the other.
  • If every cloud has a silver lining, then the silver lining of the Michelettist coup is struggle and solidarity, we joke in the corridors and during the brief breaks we have on the radio, which gives us such gushing life.