0 a good quality that something or someone has that stops it, him, or her from being completely bad:
The film's only/one saving grace is the excellent cinematography.
A saving grace is that the article does at least offer an opportunity to evaluate end-of-life care in this country, and hospice specifically.
The saving grace is that, if we have a trustworthiness culture, a trust culture is sure to follow.
Her summaries at the end of chapters are a saving grace.
To a degree, for men in both stations, the opacity and rule-boundedness of corporate bureaucracy was a saving grace.
Though this has created a more diffuse and less certain body of knowledge, a ' scattered and unstable discipline ' (p. 105), this may be its saving grace.
Its saving grace is that it brings some interesting and neglected information that might be used to write another book with a broader and more comprehensive approach.
The only saving grace has been the escalation in land and capital values.
The only saving grace that this one will have is that it will last for only one year.
