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| make the best of it; make the best of a bad bargain; make a virtue of necessity (Anglophile); put a brave face on a sorry business (Anglophile); bite the bullet (MichaelBurov); put a good face on the matter (Interex); sugarcoat (q3mi4) | |||
| crack hardy; crack hearty | |||
| make the best of a bad business (Bobrovska); whistle past the graveyard (Баян) | |||
| put up a good front (делать вид, что всё нормально в ситуации, когда дела в действительности идут плохо to pretend that everything is fine when things are actually going quite badly); pull over on (вести нечестную игру, стараясь убедить окружающих в своих честных намерениях to act deceitfully; someone); put up a brave front | |||
| put on a good face (eugenealper); put a good face on something (eugenealper) | |||
| put the best face on matters (bigmaxus) | |||
| make the best of a bad job; put up a good front | |||
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