Every cloud has a silver lining
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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
You have often, I dare say, heard grown-up people say that every cloud has a silver lining, and so you will understand that a cloud without a lining is a very uncommon thing.
From Fairies I Have Met by Stawell, Maud Margaret Key
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