pis aller
Example Sentences
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I don't offer you my work as a pis aller.
From Carlyon Sahib by Murray, Gilbert
But this, it must be remembered, would leave the work of Southern Slav Unity incomplete, and is only to be regarded as a pis aller.
From The War and Democracy by
It was true I might find a political stalwart in the smoking-room—but that was a last resort, a desperate and ignominious pis aller.
From The Inheritors by Conrad, Joseph
The young gentleman had recourse as a pis aller to his mamma.
From Love Me Little, Love Me Long by Reade, Charles
It seemed to me, in my then ignorance, like a pis aller, when the postillion said, 'Let us try the "France,"' and little prepared me for the handsome, but somewhat small, hotel before me.
From Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands by Lever, Charles James
