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| Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining |
Meaning:
Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining means that even if something bad happens that there is always something good that comes from it also.
Example:
“Well, there’s a silver lining.”
“Always looking for the silver lining in the cloud, Billy welcomed the temporary layoff from work so he could do some work around the house.”
Origin:
This phrase is usually said as a supporting
statement to a person who is overcome by some difficulty and is unable to see
any positive outcome.
The origin of this idiom “every cloud has a silver lining” was first written in 1634, with John Milton’s Comus: A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle. It read:
'Clouds' and 'silver linings' were referred to often in literature from then onward. The saying became quite popular in the Victorian era in 1840 when Mrs S. Hall, wrote a review of the novel Young Maid's Fortunes in The Dublin Magazine, (Volume 1) it read:
From then on we use every cloud has a silver lining the same way, to express even if something bad happens, something good will come of it
The origin of this idiom “every cloud has a silver lining” was first written in 1634, with John Milton’s Comus: A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle. It read:
“Was I deceived or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night?”
'Clouds' and 'silver linings' were referred to often in literature from then onward. The saying became quite popular in the Victorian era in 1840 when Mrs S. Hall, wrote a review of the novel Young Maid's Fortunes in The Dublin Magazine, (Volume 1) it read:
“As Katty Macane has it, "there's a silver lining to every cloud that sails about the heavens if we could only see it."”
From then on we use every cloud has a silver lining the same way, to express even if something bad happens, something good will come of it
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