a blessing in disguise
something that seems bad or unlucky at first, but results in something good happening later:
Losing that job was a blessing in disguise really.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Good luck and bad luck
- bad/hard/tough luck! idiom
- be a good idiom
- be bad luck on sb idiom
- be down on your luck idiom
- be in/out of luck idiom
- blessing
- favour
- grace
- hapless
- happenstance
- happily
- hard luck! idiom
- lap
- mischance
- misfortune
- mishap
- mixed blessing
- Murphy's law
- shame
- stroke
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