The phrase "every cloud has a silver lining" means that in every bad situation, there are some good bits, or something to be optimistic about.
No clouds literally have a silver lining, and a cloud only appears to be silver when the sun hits it in a certain way.
As for the idiomatic meaning, it might be true. Try thinking of any bad situation you can and I'm sure you can think of a couple of ways it could become good, so yes every cloud does have a silver lining.
Some people say that it is very rare. Truth be told this is NOT true. It is rare but not very rare. I have truly seen this a lot in my area. So, don't listen to the people who say it is very rare because they are lying (or they are blind). BTW, while i was writing this answer i saw 3 cloud to cloud lightnings.
The scientific answer: True. The sun formed about 4.6 billion years ago when a cloud composed primarily of hydrogen and helium with some heavier elements collapsed, igniting nuclear fusion. The creationist answer: False. On the first day God said let their be light. Genesis 1:3
There was a period in the 1960's when the USA weather bureau stated that some fluffy types of clouds were supposed to be attractive and named then 'cloud nine'. It is also suggested that it is a stage of Buddhist enlightenment. Neither of these explanations is considered true
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No. The Earth orbits the Sun once in 365.24 days
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Man created heaven in his mind to alleviate all the problems he/she might encounter on the Earth. Whilst it is nice to believe that after this life you will ascend into blissful luxury upon a floating cloud of silver lining, the reality is not true.
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Yes. But the fact must be true for EVERY parallelogram.
No, pure silver consists of silver atoms arranged in a crystalline structure. However, there may be impurities present in the form of different atoms or compounds depending on the purity level of the silver.
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