pis aller
Example Sentences
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Dinner was looked forward to with curiosity, as well as appetite; my wife, as usual, distrusting our experiments, was not sanguine of success, and made ready some plain food as a pis aller*.
From Swiss Family Robinson by Wyss, Johann David
Not that the law had any peculiar attraction for him; he rather accepted it as a pis aller; for, of course, he had to study something.
From Essays on Scandinavian Literature by Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth
As a pis aller, I look at Algy.
From Nancy by Broughton, Rhoda
When I wouldn't take her place, a pis aller merely.
From A Woman of Genius by Austin, Mary Hunter
"Awful stick, but a pis aller I'm afraid."
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, 1890.05.10 by Various
