Brewer's: Dutch Comfort

`Tis a comfort it was no worse. The comfort derivable from the consideration that how bad soever the evil which has befallen you, a worse evil is at least conceivable.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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