Meaning of "Count your blessings"

English as a Second Language English Teacher Explanations (ESL Tests)
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Test No. [color=blue]incompl/elem-32 “Responses (5)”, question 9

Jill: ‘I’ve lost everything my job, my house, my money - what should I do?’
Frank: ‘…’

(a) Count your blessings.
(b) Count your benefits.
(c) Count your assets.
(d) Count your possessions.

Test No. [color=blue]incompl/elem-32 “Responses (5)”, answer 9

Jill: ‘I’ve lost everything my job, my house, my money - what should I do?’
Frank: ‘Count your blessings.’

Correct answer: (a) Count your blessings.

Your answer was: [color=green]correct
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count your blessing?

rich7

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It means look at all of the things you still have left that are good.

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there’s never one too many, keep up the good work.

man you know my main goal here, is to learn the infomal
English and I’m feeling you might be of help.

I’ll try to keep you busy in the near future, I hope you answer me with your usual wit.
:lol: :lol: :lol:

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However, I can’t understad the meaning of the " Count your blessings "

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Hi Rich 7,

Welcome back after all this time.

A

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Hi Alan,

‘Count your blessing’ ==> what does this mean?

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Hello LittleDA,

count on sth (EXPECT) phrasal verb
to expect something to happen and make plans based on it:
[+ ing form of verb] I’m counting on the meeting finishing on time, or I’ll miss my train.
Sorry I’m late, I didn’t count on being held up in the traffic.
There’s never a taxi when you want one - that’s the one thing you can count on!

dictionary.cambridge.org/define. … &dict=CALD

I hope this will help.
:slight_smile:

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Dear Kalon & Little DA

Kindly check this link and I am sure your confusion about [color=red]“count your blessings” will be removed

dictionary.cambridge.org/def … &dict=CALD

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Hi,

‘Count your blessings’ suggests be grateful or satisfied with the good things in your life.

Alan

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Thanks all of you. Nice day!

DA.

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then why we couldn’t answer"count your assets."

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Here in Colombia there was a funny caracter in a comedy show that used to say (in spanish of course) look at the good side of the bad side, =).

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I’ve a sneaky suspicion that there must be some kind of punctuation mark after the word “everything” in the sentence:
‘I’ve lost everything my job, my house, my money - what should I do?’
In my native language that’d be the colon (:slight_smile: mark.
As far as English is concerned can somebody answer if it is possible to use colon inside of direct speech … or may be it is better to use dash???