Meaning of no news is good news in English

no news is good news

idiom saying

said to make someone feel less worried when they have not received information about someone or something, because if something bad had happened, they would have been told about it:

We haven't heard anything from the hospital today, but I suppose no news is good news.

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(Definition of no news is good news from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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no news is good news

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if something bad had happened, you would have been told:

We haven’t heard that they got home safely, but I guess no news is good news.

(Definition of no news is good news from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of no news is good news

no news is good news

I hope that no news is good news, that satisfactory arrangements have been made and that proper compensation is to be paid.

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Would it be right to assume that no news is good news?

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As we have heard many times today, no news is good news.

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Clearly, the newspapers and the radio have been disappointed; it is no news; and for us this little event of no news is good news.

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The station where no news is good news.

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