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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 was just another Monday night for them. In fact, my dad invited my mum to come too but at the last minute she decided not to go. It was a blessing in disguise."
"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.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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