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The universe's pause button, pressed just before the bad thing finishes happening.
means A temporary delay or suspension of a punishment, hardship, or unpleasant outcome.
from From the Anglo-French repris, to take back — originally a literal sending of a prisoner back to a cell instead of the gallows, life rented out one more day.
Legal rootsPostpones a sentence; pardon erases it entirely.
Spelling trapOften misspelled reprive, dropping the silent middle e.
Weather useHeat waves get reprieves too, not just convicts.