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See: EVERY CLOUD HAS A SILVER LINING.

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every cloud has a silver lining

[every cloud has a silver lining] Every trouble has something hopeful that you can see in it, like the bright edge around a dark cloud. - A proverb. * /The […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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[silver] See: [BORN WITH A SILVER SPOON IN ONE'S MOUTH], [EVERY CLOUD HAS A SILVER LINING], [HAND SOMETHING TO ONE ON A SILVER PLATTER]. A Dictionary of American Idioms

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[have] See: [CAT HAS NINE LIVES], [ONE'S CAKE AND HAVE IT TOO], [EVERY CLOUD HAS A SILVER LINING], [EVERY DOG HAS HIS DAY], [HAVE NOTHING ON] or [HAVE ANYTHING ON], […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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