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Have you seen Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back? I've never heard "try to make lemonade" only "make lemonade" In my experience difficult problems can be solv
by canthonytucci 8y ago
Have you seen Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back?
I've never heard "try to make lemonade" only "make lemonade"
In my experience difficult problems can be solved if people keep a good attitude and are invested in making things work, even when success seems unlikely.
But sometimes you will fail.
I was interested to know what sort of problem space the parent had their bad experience in, and to hear more about how things didn't work out. I don't doubt that there are domains where a "can do attitude" will not cut it.
- brennebeck 8y agoYes, I have. One of my favorites, actually. And definitely nobody says, “try to make lemonade...”. That goes against the saying, I agree. My point was just that even when you take the “when life gives you lemons” approach sometimes you won’t be getting that lemonade after all. As such, I also didn’t think it to be the best phrase for what (I thought) you were trying to convey. I agree with your reply, 100%. Thinking a bit more as I write this, I may be wrong above (in this reply; about the wrong phrase) and it is, in fact, the best idiom. Not sure. But now I’m definitely on the fence, at least (compared to above, where I was on one side of the fence).