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Brewer's: Silver Lining
The prospect of better days, the promise of happier times. The allusion is to Milton's Comus, where the lady lost in the wood resolves to hope on, and sees a “sable cloud turn forth its silver lining to the night.”
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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