make a virtue of necessity

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

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.”

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