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Every cloud has a silver lining

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  1. Every misfortune has its positive aspect.


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They say that every cloud has a silver lining.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2025

That said, every cloud has a silver lining...

From Golf Digest • Nov. 13, 2017

A useful cliché holds that every cloud has a silver lining.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2015

But, just as every cloud has a silver lining, the Netflix catalog changes aren’t all negative.

From Time • Jan. 2, 2014

They say," she thought, "that every cloud has a silver lining.

From Janice Day the Young Homemaker by Long, Helen Beecher