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grateful/thankful for small mercies
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If someone should be grateful/thankful for small mercies, they should be grateful for something although it is not as good as they would like
We've only raised a quarter of the money we needed, but I suppose we must be thankful for small mercies.
(Definition of grateful/thankful for small mercies from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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