count one's blessings
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editcount one's blessings (third-person singular simple present counts one's blessings, present participle counting one's blessings, simple past and past participle counted one's blessings)
- (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.
- 1915, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter 3, in Pollyanna Grows Up[1], The Page Company:
- Of course if she begins to preach, and to tell me to count my blessings, I shall send her away.
- 1995 May 22, Richard Lacayo et al., “Bart Simpson Calling”, in Time:
- Rupert Murdoch isn't somebody to sit back and count his blessings.
- 2006, Mark Winegardner, The Godfather's Revenge[2], →ISBN, page 175:
- The other out-of-town Dons patiently listened, perhaps counting their blessings that each had a city all to himself.
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