make the best out of a difficult situation
turn something negative into a positive
make something sweet out of something bitter
embrace life in whatever form
look on the bright side of life
She tried to live by the motto ‘when life gives you lemons, make lemonade.’
He was so optimistic that he should have ‘when life gives you lemons‘ tattooed on his forehead.
Although I was devastated when I was made redundant from my job, I used the time to go back to college and retrain. A case of if life gives you lemons and all that.
My grandfather lost his job due to the coronavirus, but he decided to keep busy and active. He says, “when life gives you lemons, make lemonade.”
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. And when life gives you millions of apples, make jam.
Now when life gives you lemons, you can quickly and simply make so many lemony drinks and dishes.
If life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When one door shuts, another one opens. So be optimistic.
When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade out of it – the saying fits quite aptly for my father who knows how to make the most out of everything.
Why not try something more positive? As they say, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
My hope is that they look at this moment in time as a learning lesson to life and take away that when life gives you lemons – you make the best lemonade possible.
There is no origin for this idiom
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