no news is good news

Meaning

1. if there were bad news we would hear it, so as we have heard nothing, it is likely that nothing bad has happened

In the movies · 7

• Well, let's hope no news is good news.The Sisters Brothers2018
• I have very, very good news. Very good news.Silver Linings Playbook2012
• Commander, I have news. Good news, actually.Battlestar Galactica: The Plan2009
• Bad news, bad news. Even when it's good news, it's bad news.Argo2012
• So perhaps our bad news is good news after all, and now we can all go homeThe Ghost and Mrs. Muir1947
• - No. Still hasn't called. - No news is good news, eh?In Bruges2008
• - Good news? - Very good news.The Shop Around the Corner1940

Learn it in full scenes

• Silver Linings Playbook2012
  • Pat Rides Home From the Hospital
  • Pat's Silver Lining Speech
  • Pat Tells Dr. Patel the Truth
• The Ghost and Mrs. Muir1947
  • Lucy Leaves Her In-Laws' House
  • Lucy Insists on Gull Cottage
  • Lucy Rents the Haunted House
• The Shop Around the Corner1940
  • Morning Gossip at Matuschek's
  • The Anonymous Letter From Box 237
  • Matuschek's Singing Cigarette Box

From the same entry

• be bad news
• break the news
• be good news
• break new ground
• good as new
• … is the new
• a new broom
• a new kid on the block
• a new one on me
• turn over a new leaf
• what's new
• new blood