make the best of it

Also, make the best of a bad bargain. Adapt as well as possible to a bad situation, bad luck, or similar circumstances, as in Jeff ended up in a cabin without his friends, but decided to make the best of it, or She got the worst possible position, but Dad told her to make the best of a bad bargain. The first term dates from the first half of the 1600s. The second appeared in John Ray's proverb collection of 1670 and coexisted for a time with variants such as make the best of a bad game and make the best of a bad market, which have died out.

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So Ruben Amorim's squad opted to make the best of it.

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“But I do want to see my friend do well; it would be way better if it was for another team, but it is what it is and you try and make the best of it.”

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“This is my reality.” he says, “and I’m just trying to make the best of it.”

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He is learning to make the best of it so that he doesn’t stunt his players’ progress.

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“If you're going to be a professional criminal, you'll be in the nick from time to time, and while you're there you make the best of it and don't bleat about it,” he said.

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make the bed make the dust fly

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