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The universe hitting snooze on your consequences, just once, just briefly.
means A delay or temporary cancellation of something bad that was about to happen — especially a punishment or sentence.
from From French repris, past participle of reprendre, 'to take back,' rooted in Latin prendere, 'to take or seize.' The spelled-with-an-e form came about partly through confusion with the unrelated word 'reprieve/repryve' in older legal English, but the core sense survived intact: something already in motion — a punishment, a doom — gets taken back, if only for now.
- origin
- from french reprendre, to take back
- legal use
- delays execution without cancelling the sentence
- the catch
- postpones the problem, never deletes it
- feels like
- relief with a deadline hidden inside