Usually means: Turning necessity into a strength.
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  1. make a virtue of necessity: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. make a virtue (out) of necessity, make a virtue of necessity: Merriam-Webster
  3. make a virtue of necessity: Collins English Dictionary
  4. make a virtue of necessity: Wiktionary
  5. make a virtue of necessity: Dictionary.com
  6. Make a Virtue of Necessity: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  7. Make a virtue of necessity: Phrase Finder

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  1. make a virtue of necessity: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (make a virtue of necessity)

verb:  (idiomatic) To make the best of a difficult situation; to recast or portray an action or situation in which one has no alternatives as an action or situation which was deliberately chosen on its merits.

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