saving grace

saving grace
спасительная сила (чего-л.); благодать

‘Was she ever out of temper?’ ‘She can begin to be, but she always goes on to something else before she's finished.’ ‘What saving grace!’ (J. Galsworthy, ‘Flowering Wilderness’, ch. II) — - Интересно, тетя сердилась когда-нибудь? - Иной раз рассердится, да тут же и позабудет из-за чего. Тучи и рассеются. - Вот благодать-то!

She felt as if she would like to be agreeable to this young man, and also there came with it, or perhaps preceded it, the slightest shade of a feeling that he was better educated than she was - that his mind was better. He seemed to look it, and the saving grace in Carrie was that she could understand that people could be wiser. (Th. Dreiser, ‘Sister Carrie’, ch. XXXII) — Ей почему-то захотелось понравиться молодому человеку, - этому предшествовало смутное сознание, что он намного образованнее ее и, наверное, умнее. Керри, надо отдать ей должное, понимала, что люди могут быть умнее ее.

There was always in me the saving grace of doubt or self-mistrust. (Th. Dreiser, ‘A Book about Myself’, ch. XXXI) — При всех моих недостатках мне была свойственна одна спасительная черта: полное отсутствие самоуверенности.


Большой англо-русский фразеологический словарь. - М.: «Русский язык-Медиа».. 2006.

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