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What does it mean when someone says to another person: "I can't find your sliver lining"?

The metaphor by it self means: Silver lining (idiom), a metaphor for optimism in the common English-language idiom "Every cloud has a silver lining" So My best guess was "I can't find the bright side about you"... opinions?

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Question added by Adeeb Haddad , Independent Freelance Translator , Independent
Date Posted: 2013/09/13
Nicholas Poshayi
by Nicholas Poshayi , Teacher/Librarian/Academic Teacher , Brooke Bond School

I can't see any special flair you do possess.Your worthy is not so evident

Yes, essentially it means that you can't see anything good about that person, as if it were a dark cloud with no bright shades (yep, that's the original meaning).

Orouba Dandashly
by Orouba Dandashly , Housing/invoicing/planner , Saudi Oger, Kaust Project

It means I do not find any special traits that distinguish you

p this is what we called in english an ideomatic express which means : i cann t get  major pointview if you are meaning an idea  or about the personnality when you cann t recoganize a charachter of person you can say it 

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