grateful/thankful for small mercies
If someone should be grateful/thankful for small mercies, they should be grateful for something because it is not as bad as it could have been:
She wasn't badly hurt in the accident, so we're grateful for small mercies.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Relieved and thankful
- a load/weight off your mind idiom
- appreciative
- beholden
- bless
- cheers!
- count
- indebted
- million
- mind
- obliged
- release
- relief
- relieved
- ta
- thank
- thank you
- thanks
- thanks a million idiom
- vote of thanks
- you shouldn't have idiom
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