Backing or lining, golden or silver, I really couldn't have left this
out.
Then again, the silver lining seems to have a rather illustrious history, apparently
being able to trace its ancestry to a poem by John Milton, Comus (lines 222-223):
`Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloudwith some references closer to our own time (at least according to one source) from (among others) Charles Dickens and P.T. Barnum.
turn forth her silver lining on the night?'