Who can explain to me next phrase "silver lining"?
Context:Some teenagers, being the little
beasts that they are, toss a brick through
a bakery window. A crowd gathers and
laments, “What a shame.” But before you
know it, someone suggests a silver lining to
the situation: Now the baker will have to
spend money to have the window repaired.
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Answers · 3
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Basically, it means that even the worst situation has some good that can come from it.
The usual phrase you may hear is "in every cloud lies a silver lining."
I'm not really sure why this particular analogy was chosen, but that is the meaning.
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This is the "Parable of the Broken Window" by Frédéric Bastiat.
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A silver lining means that a situation has an unexpected benefit or positive side. But I don't really see how having to pay to fix a window could be a positive thing...
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