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count one's blessings en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic) To focus one's attention on the circumstances of one's life which are pleasant or fortunate, especially with the intention of diverting one's thoughts from serious or disagreeable matters.
    • The other out-of-town Dons patiently listened, perhaps counting their blessings that each had a city all to himself. 2006, Mark Winegardner, The Godfather's Revenge, →ISBN, page 175:
    • Of course if she begins to preach, and to tell me to count my blessings, I shall send her away. 1915, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter 3, in Pollyanna Grows Up, The Page Company:
    • Rupert Murdoch isn't somebody to sit back and count his blessings. 1995 May 22, Richard Lacayo et al., “Bart Simpson Calling”, in Time:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
counted one's blessings Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
counted one's blessings Tense=Past lexicographic
counting one's blessings Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
counts one's blessings Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Relateds

look on the bright side · the glass half-full

Translations (10)

pl but see ciesz się tym, co masz (count one's blessings) · de otherwise one can say den Blick auf die guten Seiten des Lebens richten (count one's blessings) · fi keskittyä asioiden hyviin puoliin (count one's blessings) · fr voir le bon côté des choses (count one's blessings) · de sich zufrieden geben (count one's blessings) · de no exact idiomatic equivalent (count one's blessings) · de but see sich glücklich schätzen (count one's blessings) · nb telle sine velsignelser (count one's blessings) · de sich daran freuen, was man hat (count one's blessings) · cmn 知足 (count one's blessings)