saving grace
a good quality that makes you like something or someone although you do not like anything else about them

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saving grace
a good quality that makes you like something or someone although you do not like anything else about them.
It's a small cinema and the seats are uncomfortable, but the saving grace is that people aren't allowed to eat during the film.

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saving grace
something that saves someone or something that would otherwise be a total disaster
The man's saving grace was his mathematical ability. His other personality traits were very strange.

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saving grace
n. phr. A single good attribute; a redeeming quality.
Felicity is not very attractive but her intelligence and wit are her saving grace.

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