APAD: Make a virtue of necessity

Meaning:

   Obtain kudos from apparently willingly doing something that one was in fact

   couldn't avoid doing. It is also used to mean `submit with good grace'.

 

Background:

   This is first recorded in Chaucer. Shakespeare also used it in Two Gentlemen

   of Verona, 1591.

 

     Second Outlaw Indeed, because you are a banish'd man,

     Therefore, above the rest, we parley to you:

     Are you content to be our general?

     To make a virtue of necessity

     And live, as we do, in this wilderness?

 

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Out of habit, some people make a necessity of virtues. These eccentrics ignore

standards and fads and live a comical life. My friend Bill needs both hands to

crack an egg. After dumping the main content, he has to make sure to scoop the

last drop from each half eggshell using an index finger. He then plants the

leftover in his herb pots and claims it beats any fertilizer from the store. We

laugh at his oddities all the time.

什么意思呢？优雅的保持体面？

Haha, why not if that makes one feel better & be in control?

被迫无奈但装的体面地去做 ：）不过也是一种积极正面的态度吧？

Just kidding. But I do feel sorry for Bill, poor guy ;)

Sort of like life gives me a lemon, I make lemonade.

That's what he says, too, and "I didn't hurt anyone." :-)

He's not poor but poverty did lick him into shape:)

Thumbs up!

Do U have a collection of Bill’s stores? SoundsInteresting;)

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哈哈，顺水人情啊，

无利不起早

I need two eggs to crack one, and I save all eggshells as

fertilizers. As a matter of fact, I keep almost all kitchen wastes, veggie, fruit skins, etc. , ferment them for a month or so before watering the plants (of course it needs to be diluted). As a result, I rarely buy any fertilizer from Home Depot. 

I have the habit of making a virtue of necessity too.:))

Cracking one egg with two eggs sounds like an exotic skill

Please show us :-)

haha, a commercial secret:) It's a learned skill to have one

egg crack the other, with one you want to be cracked hitting a bit heavily. I learned from childhood, and it is a habit now.

How does Bill crack an egg with two hands? Very curious:))

High-school physics: the forces on both eggs are equal :-)

But if you hit one against another, only one is cracked:)

If this topic is picked up at home,某人会说“不跟你这个文科生讨论此类问题”：）

I can see now:all spots on an egg cannot bear the same force