2025年8月20日 星期三

saving grace. 'Pull Out All the Stops'? Amsterdam is pulling out all the stops for its 750th birthday.⁠

 


This year, Amsterdam marks its extraordinary 750-year journey from medieval fishing village to global cultural capital with a festival programme as dynamic and diverse as the city itself. Twenty-four-hour neighbourhood festivals, a nine-mile-long street party and a whole year of revelry — Amsterdam is pulling out all the stops for its 750th birthday.⁠
📷️ Photo by Getty Images for the European Cities Collection 2025 by National Geographic Traveller (UK)

o make every possible effort
To pull out all the stops means to make every possible effort or use all available resources to achieve an end. The "stops" in question were originally the physical stop knobs of a pipe organ. [Travis] Scott pulled out all the stops at the concert's end.Dec 5, 2018


saving grace

noun S ]
uk 
 
/ˌseɪ.vɪŋ ˈɡreɪs/
 us 
 
/ˌseɪ.vɪŋ ˈɡreɪs/
a good quality that something or someone has that stops it, him, or her from being completely bad
可取之處
The film's only/one saving grace is the excellent cinematography.這部電影(唯一的/的一個)可取之處就是攝影很出色。

(Translation of saving grace from the Cambridge English-Chinese (Traditional) Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of saving grace

saving grace
Its only saving grace is that that may never come to pass.
From the 
Hansard archive
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.
It is the saving grace of our new statesmen; their smile is the only thing that helps them through their career.
From the 
Hansard archive
In the past our invisible earnings have been one of the most important parts, the saving grace, of the balance-of-payments situation.
From the 
Hansard archive
Their personalities and good stunt-flying scenes are the only saving grace.

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