no news is good news
said to make someonefeellessworriedwhen they have notreceivedinformationabout someone or something, because if somethingbadhadhappened, they would have been told about it:
没有消息就是好消息，不闻凶讯便是吉We haven'theardanything from thehospitaltoday, but Isupposenonewsis goodnews.我们今天没有得到医院的任何消息，但我想没有消息就是好消息。
Reassuring
- be/take a weight offyourmindidiom
- blandishments
- calm (someone) down
- comforting
- comfortingly
- consolation
- console
- consoling
- consolingly
- convince
- get (something) through (tosomeone)
- hearten
- lift
- lighten
- mind
- reassurance
- reassuring
- theyshould worry!idiom
- weight
- you do youidiom
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no news is good news
if somethingbadhadhappened, you would have been told:
We haven’theardthat they gothomesafely, but Iguessnonewsis goodnews.
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no news is good news
I hope thatnonewsisgoodnews, that satisfactory arrangements have been made and that proper compensation is to be paid.
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Would it be right to assume thatnonewsisgoodnews?
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As we have heard many times today,nonewsisgoodnews.
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Clearly, the newspapers and the radio have been disappointed; it is no news; and for us this little event ofnonewsisgoodnews.
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The station wherenonewsisgoodnews.
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