Back to AtD. Another use of 'grace"

[Mark Kohut]

p. 970...After Reef has had the drop taken on them by three Albanians, and Reef says the gleam from barrels
all around and says he is a dead duck in Albanian...which 

"'Buys' him a minute and a half of grace", "which turns out to be just enough"....

Grace here meaning time, of course, 

And I think that is no accident or outlier use and dovetails nicely with other uses....
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