when life gives you lemons, make lemonade

when life gives you lemons, make lemonade

proverb Focus on the good in a bad situation and take action accordingly. While I was devastated to lose my job, being unemployed gave me the time to finally go back to school. When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, right?
See also: give, life, make
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • teach a man to fish
  • it takes a village
  • village
  • bigger they are, the harder they fall
  • bigger they come, the harder they fall, the
  • burnt
  • a burnt child dreads the fire
  • best-laid plans go astray, the
  • the best-laid plans
  • the best-laid plans go astray
References in periodicals archive
"WHEN life gives you lemons, make lemonade," an old adage suggests.
Kind schoolgirl holds lemonade sale and raises PS300 for charity
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Something the owners of Redstones should remember.
We just saw Red when revamped pub told us they had no lemonade