make a virtue of necessity

Meaning: (idiomatic)To make the best of adifficultsituation; torecastorportrayanactionorsituationin which one has noalternativesas an action or situation which wasdeliberatelychosenon itsmerits.c.1590–1591(date written),William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies[…](First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward]Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act IV, scene i]:Indeed, because you are a banish'd man,Therefore, above the rest, we parley to you:Are you content to be our general?Tomake a virtue of necessityAnd live, as we do, in this wilderness?1906,George Bernard Shaw,Major Barbara, Preface:Nietzsche, as I gather, regarded the slave-morality as having been invented and imposed on the world by slavesmaking a virtue of necessityand a religion of their servitude.

Examples:

EN: Come on Peter, let's make a virtue of necessity.
ES: Vamos Peter, hagamos de la necesidad virtud.
EN: enough to make a virtue of necessity,
HI: वो तोहफ़ा बन किसी ज़रूरतमंद का,
HI: गरज गरज उठता है उसका वारि,
EN: To make a virtue of necessity;
HI: जरुरत फ़क़ीर भी कर लेता हैं पूरी;
EN: I'd make a virtue of necessity.
TE: కల్యాణ్కైతే నా అవసరం ఉందనుకుంటున్నా.

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