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

See also:

teach a man to fish
village
it takes a village
when the tree falls, the monkeys scatter
bigger they are, the harder they fall
bigger they come, the harder they fall, the
give a man a fish...
a burnt child dreads the fire
best-laid schemes/plans, the
the best-laid plans go astray

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