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bright side

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the bright side
the good parts or features of a mostly unpleasant situation. There's a bright side to this – at least you can learn from your mistake.
Usage notes: often used in the form look on the bright side: They tried to look on the bright side when their flight was rerouted to another city.
See also: bright, side
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Becky Thatcher was gone to her Constantinople home to stay with her parents during vacation -- so there was no bright side to life anywhere.
Tom Sawyer by Twain, Mark View in context
Let us hear, then, what it is at its best estate--gaze on its bright side, if it has one; and then imagination may task her powers to add dark lines to the picture, as she travels southward to that (for the colored man) Valley of the Shadow of Death, where the Mississippi sweeps along.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave by Douglass, Frederick View in context
Well, of course, if you can look on the bright side, pray do; it's a mercy if people haven't sensitive feelings, in this world.
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Stowe, Harriet Beecher View in context
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