redeeming feature

Idioms  

1. A good quality or aspect that makes up for other drawbacks, as in The house isn't very attractive, but the garden is the redeeming feature. This idiom, first recorded in 1827, uses redeem in the sense of “compensate.”

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redeeming feature

They offered not one redeeming feature as they slumped again, the visiting fans suffering as they made their way home from a freezing west London night.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2025

Its only redeeming feature is that the words are so tiny I can’t read them.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 31, 2020

But the store has one great redeeming feature: It does not charge for postage, which is considerable across the ocean.

From New York Times ● Jul. 18, 2018

We end with the debate’s redeeming feature, which surprisingly had to do with God.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2016

Besides, my absent-mindedness is not without its redeeming feature.

From The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia by Cahan, Abraham