"When life gives you lemons, make lemonade"

There aren't many events that i can compare this quote to. Atleast off of the top of my head. But if i had to think of one it would be when i played little league football in middle school. We had one more team to beat to make it into the playoffs and the week before our game, our quarterback fractured his wrist. So without a quarterback we initially thought we were going to be stomped into the ground. Sunday came around, it was raining, and it was just an overall bad day. We went out and played our hearts out. Our defense stepped up tremendously and they won us the game because they were able to keep the other team from scoring. This is similar to the quote i think because we all definitely thought we were going to lose due to the circumstances of not having our starting QB. And also the weather was very poor. But our defense stepped up and won us the game without us really needing our quarterback. They made "lemonade out of lemons." =]