be thankful/grateful for small mercies/favours

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishbe thankful/grateful for small mercies/favoursbe thankful/grateful for small mercies/favoursto be pleased that a bad situation is not even worse She wasn’t too badly hurt, so we should be thankful for small mercies. → smallExamples from the Corpusbe thankful/grateful for small mercies/favours• From now on she could be grateful for small mercies and be content to take one step at a time.• She wondered wryly whether to be thankful for small mercies, or to feel insulted.

单词	be thankful/grateful for small mercies/favours
释义	be thankful/grateful for small mercies/favours From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishbe thankful/grateful for small mercies/favoursbe thankful/grateful for small mercies/favoursto be pleased that a bad situation is not even worse She wasn’t too badly hurt, so we should be thankful for small mercies. → smallExamples from the Corpusbe thankful/grateful for small mercies/favours• From now on she could be grateful for small mercies and be content to take one step at a time.• She wondered wryly whether to be thankful for small mercies, or to feel insulted.
随便看	spring from something spring in your step spring into action spring into being spring into existence spring into existence/being spring into life spring loaded spring on spring onion spring open spring open/shut spring out at spring out at somebody spring roll spring shut spring something on somebody spring term spring tide spring to (somebody’s) mind spring to aid spring to assistance spring to attention spring to defence spring to life