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Definition of blessing in disguise
blessing in disguise
noun
- something bad that turns out to be good.
Out breakup may be a blessing in disguise.
Last edited on Nov 27 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 11 2009.
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| Definitions include: a secret advantage. | |
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| Definitions include: doing something emphatically. | |
| Definitions include: no chance. | |
| Definitions include: something easy. | |
| Definitions include: at some time before the present. | |
| Definitions include: having resumed an activity that one had previously stopped performing. | |
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| Definitions include: clitoris. | |
| Definitions include: to intrude. | |
| Definitions include: See barge in. | |
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| Definitions include: never. | |
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