saving grace

noun

: a redeeming quality or factor

Examples of saving grace in a Sentence

It's expensive, but the machine's saving grace is its ease of operation.

One of her saving graces is a good sense of humor.

Recent Examples on the Web

The Crkd Nitro Deck was a saving grace for the original Nintendo Switch. — Cameron Faulkner, The Verge, 25 Oct. 2026

Again and again, Misty comes fully alive in the presence of others—a saving grace in a town that still often runs on chance meetings, fateful reunions, and testy but resilient relationships. — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2026

My saving grace on my red-eye to Paris, these things are like elevated pajamas. — Elly Leavitt, Vogue, 9 Oct. 2026

International box office crisis Foreign audiences were supposed to be the saving grace after domestic projections began to nosedive in the the days leading up to release. — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 5 Oct. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1798, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for saving grace

• aerospace
• anatase
• anyplace
• commonplace
• cyberspace
• database
• diabase
• diastase
• dnase
• elastase
• fireplace
• hyperspace