Meaning of a blessing in disguise in English
a blessing in disguise
- align
- bad/hard/tough luck! idiom
- be bad luck on someone idiom
- be down on your luck idiom
- be in/out of luck idiom
- blessing
- fortune smiles on someone idiom
- get the short end of the stick idiom
- godsend
- grace
- hapless
- mercifully
- mercy
- miracle
- misadventure
- mischance
- streak
- voodoo
- with any luck idiom
- your luck's in! idiom
(Definition of a blessing in disguise from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of a blessing in disguise
a blessing in disguise
Although not very visible yet, this increased level of publicness could become a blessing in disguise.
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Illness confined her to the home, which was a blessing in disguise.
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Another suggested category is 'overused idioms', examples being add insult to injury and a blessing in disguise.
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This was a blessing in disguise, however, since most workers could identify a niche to work in, whether they were microbiologists, animal nutritionists, plant breeders, economists or sociologists.
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Perhaps that is a blessing in disguise.
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If it is able to put forward ideas as a result this may have been in some sense a blessing in disguise.
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If that is so, perhaps in this small respect the stoppage may have been a blessing in disguise.
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It may be that this new danger will prove to be a blessing in disguise.
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Perhaps in some ways this may be a blessing in disguise.
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Either a blessing in disguise or a necessary inconvenience.
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However, in this case the referendum proved to be a safeguard for the constitution and a blessing in disguise.
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I felt that it was almost potentially a blessing in disguise, and a chance to reappraise ourselves.
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I said that it could be a blessing in disguise if certain results flowed from it.
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But the fact remains that certain results could flow from it which in my judgment (which may be wrong) could be a blessing in disguise.
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We are all familiar with the argument that this kind of misfortune is very often a blessing in disguise to the victims.
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beklenmedik lütuf, nimet, hayırlı aksilik…
bienfait insoupçonné…
een verhulde zegen…
štěstí v neštěstí…
held i uheld…
berkat tersamar…
สิ่งที่เป็นปัญหาในตอนเริ่มต้นกลับลงเอยด้วยดี…
chuyện không may mà lại hoá may…
błogosławione w skutkach nieszczęście, ≈ wyjść na dobre, niespodziewane szczęście…
tur i oturen…
hikmah…
das Glück im Unglück…
hell i uhell…
лихо не без добра…
неприятность, обернувшаяся благом…
