mixed blessing in English

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{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mixed blessings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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      "expansion": "mixed blessing (plural mixed blessings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Moving house has been a mixed blessing: we're closer to the shops, but the railway is noisy."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Something that has both good and bad features."
      ],
      "id": "en-mixed_blessing-en-noun-yKNl~K6f",
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        [
          "bad",
          "bad"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Something that has both good and bad features."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "blessing in disguise"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "mixed blessing"
}

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{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mixed blessings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "mixed blessing (plural mixed blessings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "blessing in disguise"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with audio links"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Moving house has been a mixed blessing: we're closer to the shops, but the railway is noisy."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Something that has both good and bad features."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
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        ],
        [
          "bad",
          "bad"
        ],
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        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Something that has both good and bad features."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "audio": "En-au-mixed blessing.ogg",
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    }
  ],
  "word": "mixed blessing"
}

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"mixed blessing" meaning in English

Noun

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