Back to AtD. Another use of 'grace"

[Ian Livingston]

Okay, thinking about the grace as time thing. It holds possibilities as a
secular definition.

On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 3:30 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

>  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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