make lemonade

verb — 2 senses

verb

Etymology From when life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

To make the best of a difficult situation.

... left to its own devices, the Church made lemonade by taking out ads in the Playbill.2021, Religion Dispatches:

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see make, lemonade.

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — list of authors.