take solace

take solace in (something)

To be comforted or consoled by something. I know it's hard to see him this way, but you can take solace in the knowledge that your grandfather is not in any pain. I took solace in the fact that I would be leaving the job in just a few short months.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

take solace (in something)

to console oneself with some fact. I am inordinately impoverished, but I take solace in the fact that I have a splendiferous vocabulary.
See also: solace, take
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • solace
  • take solace in (something)
  • safe in the knowledge that
  • safe in the knowledge that...
  • cold comfort
  • deliver (someone or something) to (someone or something)
  • deliver to
  • in memory of
  • in memory of (someone or something)
  • in memory of somebody
References in periodicals archive
'It's painful that we had to lose him but take solace in the fact that it is usually not how long but how well.