last-ditch

“It was kind of a last-ditch hope for me,” he said.

For years, load-shedding has been used as a last-ditch attempt to keep the national grid from total collapse, following decades of mismanagement at state utility Eskom.

The Gotham FC defender put in a crucial last-ditch challenge in the first half before later teeing up Lucy Bronze's header to make it 2-0, as she impressed in defence and attack.

Meanwhile, Routh’s defense filed a last-ditch effort to have the final two firearm charges against him dropped under a Second Amendment claim.

But it's become much more common in recent decades, in a last-ditch effort to save populations of black and white rhinos in South Africa and surrounding countries, where poaching threatens their survival.