Weather sayings
What does “every cloud has a silver lining” mean?
Something good comes out of most bad situations, if you look for it.
“The flight’s cancelled, but every cloud has a silver lining: free night in the city.”
Get roasted by your own forecastFree, no account, and you pick how rude I get.
Where it comes from
From John Milton’s Comus (1634): “Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud / Turn forth her silver lining on the night?” The proverb form came later.
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Is it true?
In the sky, yes: when the sun is behind a cloud, its thinner edges light up bright white or silver.
What I think of “every cloud has a silver lining”
Every cloud has a silver lining, and also rain. The lining is doing a lot of work.
Silver lining: the cloud’s PR team.
Every cloud has a silver lining. I have seen the clouds. The lining is thin.
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Sources: John Milton, Comus (1634).