Silver lining (idiom)
A silver lining is a metaphor for optimism in the common English-language which means a negative occurrence may have a positive aspect to it.[2]
Under a cloud (with a silver lining) (1920). A cartoon depicting George Lansbury. Captions: Under a cloud (with a golden lining) Comrade Lansbury. "Thanks to my faithful brolski not a drop has touched me." [Loud crows from "Daily Herald" bird.] Possibly reflecting an allegation of Soviet funding for the Independent Labour Party. Lansbury founded the Daily Herald.[1]
Origin
The origin of the phrase is most likely traced to John Milton's "Comus" (1634) with the lines,
Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud
Turn forth her silver lining on the night?[3]
It refers to the silvery, shining edges of a cloud backlit by the Sun or the Moon.
gollark: But you can already put basically arbitrary quantities of music on tiny flash storage devices.
gollark: It would be more practical to write information into diamond isotopically, by putting either carbon-12 or carbon-13 atoms in at each place in the lattice. You can apparently read that out with something something intersecting lasers.
gollark: The molecules move round too much. You want a solid.
gollark: Cubits? It would be trits or something (ternary).
gollark: Unfortunately, there was high cancer risk or something and it stopped working as well after a few years.
See also
- idiom
- Every cloud has a silver lining
- Silver Lining (disambiguation)
- Is the glass half empty or half full?
References
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