pis aller
Example Sentences
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If conscience must reign supreme, all government is a pis aller, and in anarchy the true millennium must be found.
From Henry VIII. by A. F. (Albert Frederick) Pollard
But most of us know that our marriage is a pis aller.
From The Odd Women by George Gissing
It is jolly good often, but only a pis aller in comparison to the real thing.
From The Price of Things by Elinor Glyn
I can lead the horses,” he suggested as a pis aller.
From At Fault by Kate Chopin
Yet he is largely a pis aller for the would-be reader of Cassius Dio.
