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make the best of
do as well as possible in a bad situation He has really made the best of his time since beginning his new job.
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v. phr. To do something you do not like to do and not complain; accept with good humor.
The girl did not like to wash dishes but she made the best of it. Compare: MAKE A VIRTUE OF NECESSITY.
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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.
make the best of (something)
To accord with and actualize the best accessible aftereffect of a bad, unfortunate, or abhorrent bearings or set of circumstances. I apperceive this abstracts access job isn't what you capital for a career, but for the time actuality try and accomplish the best of it. We weren't assured to acquire to allotment our timeshare with others, but there's annihilation we can do about it now, so we'd bigger accomplish the best of a bad situation.Learn more: make, ofmake the best of something
to do as able-bodied as accessible with article that is not too promising. I don't like it, but I will try to accomplish the best of my summer agriculture job by accepting a acceptable tan. I will accomplish the best of it, for a while anyway.Learn more: make, of make the best of
To acquire (a bad situation) in as acceptable a ablaze as possible.Learn more: make, of
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