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pis aller

noun as in last resort

Weak matches

noun as in makeshift

Strong matches

Weak match

noun as in mixed blessing

Weak matches

noun as in stopgap

Strongest match

Strong matches

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If pis aller sounds ominous, well, it is.

I don't offer you my work as a pis aller.

Substitutes for butcher’s meat too often suggest the purely vegetarian dish that to most people is but a pis aller.

It was nothing to either Herbert or me, for we both found Mrs. Day a much more lively pis aller in conversation than Eleanor.

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