Adversity and Resilience

This section gathers the language people use when life gets rough, when problems arrive in clusters, or when a setback later turns out to have a hidden upside.

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• A Blessing in Disguise
• When It Rains, It Pours

Section Focus

Expect expressions about hard luck, resilience, perspective, and the search for meaning after a difficult turn.

In this section

• A Blessing in Disguise
  A bad or inconvenient event that later turns out to have a useful or positive result.
• When It Rains, It Pours
  Problems or events arrive all at once instead of appearing one by one.