saving grace

noun

1. a quality that makes up for other generally negative characteristics; redeeming feature.

Word History and Origins

Origin of saving grace¹

First recorded in 1590–1600

Example Sentences

He says at different times in their careers, each of the band members had found talking "a real saving grace".

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Where Charlotte’s saving grace is that her character remained largely unchanged, Miranda’s chaotic shift into a middle-aged awakening to her queerness was torture.

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The saving grace is that Reuveni and I both kept receipts.

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For the Dodgers, Walter’s arrival as owner in 2012 was a saving grace for what was then a floundering team.

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Her saving grace, she explained, was West Midlands Police's Offending to Recovery programme.

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