look on the bright side

look on the bright side (third-person singular simple present looks on the bright side, present participle looking on the bright side, simple past and past participle looked on the bright side)

1. To examine a situation, usually bad, from a positive perspective.
   • 2007 March 6, Julie Rutterford, Life on Mars, Season 2, Episode 3:

     Patrick O'Brien: No hard feelings? I've been falsely accused, had the crap kicked out of me, now I have no job.
     Gene Hunt: Look on the bright side. Still got your health. So, you know, every cloud.

   Look on the bright side. At least having a broken leg means Joyce will have to do the TPS reports until they remember to send your laptop over.

• see the glass half-full
• count one's blessings

• “look on the bright side” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• “look on the bright side”, in Collins English Dictionary.