Meaning of make a virtue of necessity | Babel Free
Definitions
To make the best of a difficult situation; to recast or portray an action or situation in which one has no alternatives as an action or situation which was deliberately chosen on its merits.
idiomatic
Equivalents
Čeština
z nouze ctnost
Deutsch
aus der Not eine Tugend machen
Español
hacer de la necesidad virtud
Italiano
fare di necessità virtù
Nederlands
van de nood een deugd maken
Svenska
göra en dygd av nödvändigheten
Examples
“Indeed, because you are a banish'd man, Therefore, above the rest, we parley to you: Are you content to be our general? To make a virtue of necessity And live, as we do, in this wilderness?”
“Nietzsche, as I gather, regarded the slave-morality as having been invented and imposed on the world by slaves making a virtue of necessity and a religion of their servitude.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.