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Under a cloud (with a golden lining).
Comrade Lansbury. "Thanks to my faithful brolski not a drop has touched me."
["Cock-a-rouble-roo" from "Daily Herald" bird.]
Possibly reflecting an allegation of Soviet funding for the Independent Labour Party. Lansbury founded the Daily Herald.1 source ↗
A silver lining is a metaphor for optimism in vernacular English, which means a negative occurrence may have a positive aspect to it.2
Origin
John Milton coined the phrase 'silver lining' in his poem Comus: A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634:
I see ye visibly, and now believe
That he, the Supreme Good, to whom all things ill
Are but as slavish officers of vengeance,
Would send a glistering guardian, if need were
To keep my life and honor unassailed.
Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud
Turn forth her silver lining on the night?
I did not err; there does a sable cloud
Turn forth her silver lining on the night,
And casts a gleam over this tufted grove.34
It is a metaphor referring to the silvery, shining edges of a cloud backlit by the Sun or the Moon.
See also
See also
- Idiom
- Felix culpa
- Silver Lining (disambiguation)
- Is the glass half empty or half full?
- "Silver Lining" written by laufey (singer)
References
References
- Cartoon from Punch, Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, September 22, 1920 by Various
- every cloud has a silver lining idiom definition.
- "'Every cloud has a silver lining' - the meaning and origin of this phrase". 11 December 2023.
- "Lining, N. (1), Sense 2.b". Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford UP. September 2023. doi:10.1093/OED/4708232904. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
External links
External links
- The dictionary definition of silver lining at Wiktionary
- The dictionary definition of every cloud has a silver lining at Wiktionary