make the best of

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to accept a bad or difficult situation and do as well as you can

   Well, we'll just have to make the best of it. Won't we, sir?

   We're just gonna have to make the best of it.

In the movies · 7

• Let's just make the best of it.Arthur the King2024
• We're just gonna have to make the best of it.Toy Story 32010
• Well, we'll just have to make the best of it. Won't we, sir?The Bounty1984
• Okay? We're going to make the best of it.World War Z2013
• And I hope you make the best of it.The Curious Case of Benjamin Button2008
• We'll just have to make the best of it, won't we?Dolittle2020
• Well, let's make the best of it, shall we?The Holdovers2023
• Weird name. Try to make the best of that.Ghostbusters: Afterlife2021

Learn it in full scenes

• Arthur the King2024
  • Michael's Team Fights the Tide
  • Michael Hustles for a Comeback
  • Michael Pitches for the Dominican Race

From the same entry

• as best you can
• all the best
• at best
• be for the best
• the best of a bad bunch
• the best of three, five
• the best that money can buy
• do, mean, for the best
• have the best of
• to the best of your knowledge
• with the best
• the best of the bunch

More idioms

• be for the best
• as good as
• get a grip
• make day
• make sense of
• the last straw
• be in on
• be on the lookout
• get down to business
• in a way
• a walk in the park
• all the same