Brewer's: Sacrifice to the Graces

is to render oneself agreeable by courteous conduct, suavity of manners, and fastidiousness of dress. The allusion is to the three Graces of classic mythology.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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