Timeline for Idiom for describing an unintended benefit
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| Jun 3, 2015 at 9:55 | comment | added | GreenAsJade | In my experience, at least, the idiomatic silver lining that clouds have has nothing to do with unintented effects of an action. In the same way that clouds "just are", so is the silver lining that they have. Its not the result of anything, it's part and parcel of the thing. In addition, not every occurence of the action that had the benefit will have the serendipitous result, wheras, as you said, every cloud has a silver lining. | |
| Jun 2, 2015 at 19:15 | history | answered | John Straka | CC BY-SA 3.0 |