Fwd: lexical query

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Mon Sep 3 19:11:12 UTC 2007


At 2:44 PM -0400 9/3/07, Douglas G. Wilson wrote:
>Along the lines of "mixed blessing" are "double-edged sword" and variants.
>
among which "silver-lined cloud" (or, more prosaically, "cloud with a
silver lining")

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