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blessing in disguise
Idioms and Phrases
A misfortune that unexpectedly turns into good fortune, as in Missing the train was a blessing in disguise, for if I hadn't, I wouldn't have met my future wife . [Mid-1700s]Example Sentences
"It might have been a bit of a blessing in disguise," she said.
"It was a blessing in disguise," Dr Tabiri says.
If we are forced to make our democracy anew in order to save it, then perhaps this moment of great peril is actually a blessing in disguise.
“It’s actually a blessing in disguise,” he said.
And the scout team — there’s a blessing in disguise underneath all of this.
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