saving grace

A redeeming quality of something or someone. The only saving grace about that house is the large eat-in kitchen. Aunt Gertrude's incessant talking can be annoying, but her kindness is her saving grace—I know that she would help us with anything, no questions asked.

saving grace

Cliché the one thing that saves or redeems someone or something that would otherwise be a total disaster. Her saving grace is that she has a lot of money. The saving grace for the whole evening was the good music played by the band.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Lubomir	-	Bulgarian
Rembrandt	REM-brahnt	Dutch
Rigel	-	Astronomy
Clair	KLER	French, English
SemİR	-	Turkish
LÉOpold	-	French