Dicho español · Spanish proverb
«No hay mal que por bien no venga.»
Word for word
There is no bad thing from which something good does not come.
What it really means
The closest English equivalent: Every cloud has a silver lining.
Said to console someone after a setback: whatever went wrong will eventually open a door.
Hear it in a sentence
Perdí aquel trabajo, pero gracias a eso encontré uno mejor: no hay mal que por bien no venga.
I lost that job, but thanks to that I found a better one — every cloud has a silver lining.
More Spanish sayings
- Cuando una puerta se cierra, otra se abre. — When one door closes, another opens.
- El que tiene padrino se bautiza. — It's not what you know, it's who you know.
- Un clavo saca otro clavo. — One nail drives out another.
- Dame pan y dime tonto. — Feed me and call me whatever you like.
- Quien tiene boca se equivoca. — To err is human.
Why learn dichos?
Proverbs like this one are everywhere in spoken Spanish — dropped mid-conversation, usually just the first half, with the rest left for you to complete. Recognizing them is one of the fastest ways to sound less like a textbook and follow real speech. Every Lingocito edition signs off with the dicho del día, so you meet one a day next to news written at your level.