pis aller
Example Sentences
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"I fixed on these lines as a pis aller; and they have done all and more than I wished, by bringing you back here for at least a moment."
From Two Years Ago, Volume II. by Charles Kingsley
It is perhaps a pis aller, but is not No Thoroughfare written up everywhere else?
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell
I don't offer you my work as a pis aller.
From Carlyon Sahib by Gilbert Murray
"Awful stick, but a pis aller I'm afraid."
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, 1890.05.10 by Various
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
