"make the best of a bad bargain" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: makes the best of a bad bargain [present, singular, third-person], making the best of a bad bargain [participle, present], made the best of a bad bargain [participle, past], made the best of a bad bargain [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|make<,,made> the best of a bad bargain}} make the best of a bad bargain (third-person singular simple present makes the best of a bad bargain, present participle making the best of a bad bargain, simple past and past participle made the best of a bad bargain)
  1. To do as well as one can when faced with difficult circumstances. Related terms: make the best of a bad job, make a virtue of necessity
    Sense id: en-make_the_best_of_a_bad_bargain-en-verb-GphY8KU8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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