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make the best of a bad bargain

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.93 in modern English

Syllables
make the best of a bad bar-gain
IPA
44
Scrabble Score
24
Letters
2
Syllables
15
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To do as well as one can when faced with difficult circumstances.

Inflected Forms

makes the best of a bad bargain (present, singular) 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)

Phrases

make the best of a bad job make a virtue of necessity

Frequently Paired Words

make the best of a bad job make a virtue of necessity

Questions

What does make the best of a bad bargain mean?
To do as well as one can when faced with difficult circumstances.

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