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redeeming feature
Idioms and Phrases
A good quality or aspect that makes up for other drawbacks, as in The house isn't very attractive, but the garden is the redeeming feature . This idiom, first recorded in 1827, uses redeem in the sense of “compensate.â€Example Sentences
“I couldn’t find a single redeeming feature about this utterly loathsome figure.â€
“I stumbled and hemmed and hawed and carried on and figured that the only redeeming feature of the whole thing was my mother in New York couldn’t see me make a fool of myself. But it was pretty bad. Anyway I survived the experience.â€
If “Intrusion†has one redeeming feature, it’s Marshall-Green, whose performance as the husband with a dark secret has a crackling, tightly controlled intensity far more nuanced and persuasive than anything else in the film.
Its only redeeming feature is that the words are so tiny I can’t read them.
Carrey’s Riddler is the sole redeeming feature of this lurid disappointment – his mania is underpinned by a tangible sense of hurt – and this might be why he found himself on the outs with his co-stars.
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