Examples of a blessing in disguise

• Although not very visible yet, this increased level of publicness could become a blessing in disguise.

• Illness confined her to the home, which was a blessing in disguise.

• The invasion brought in huge numbers of converts; it was, for the missionaries, a blessing in disguise (benediction deguisee).

• Another suggested category is 'overused idioms', examples being add insult to injury and a blessing in disguise.

• This was a blessing in disguise, however, since most workers could identify a niche to work in, whether they were microbiologists, animal nutritionists, plant breeders, economists or sociologists.

• Perhaps that is a blessing in disguise.

• If it is able to put forward ideas as a result this may have been in some sense a blessing in disguise.

• If that is so, perhaps in this small respect the stoppage may have been a blessing in disguise.