something that, although generally favorable or advantageous, has one or more unfavorable or disadvantageous features.
Origin
1930-35
Examples from the web for mixed blessing
The quality of these electronic posts is certainly a mixed blessing.
When a poem becomes canonical, it's almost always a mixed blessing.
In terms of academics, football culture appears to be a mixed blessing for universities.
The last book in a good sci-fi series is, for me, a mixed blessing.
But increased public awareness can be a mixed blessing.
Until then the dollar carry trade is going to be a decidedly mixed blessing.
For global warming, though, gas is a mixed blessing.
For the private sector, too, inflation would be a mixed blessing.
The reason for their interest was that these coats are something of a mixed blessing.
The first is that being big is a mixed blessing, even in the defence business.
British Dictionary definitions for mixed blessing
mixed blessing
noun
1.
an event, situation, etc, having both advantages and disadvantages
Contemporary definitions for mixed blessing
noun
a circumstance or thing that has both advantages and disadvantages
Idioms and Phrases with mixed blessing
mixed blessing
Something that has both good and bad features, as in Being accepted by the college was a mixed blessing, since she couldn't afford the tuition. [ First half of 1900s ]