pis aller

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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 The Swiss Family Robinson or, Adventures on a Desert Island by Wyss, Jean Rudolph

This I suppose the pis aller of their affairs, while their probable event is a peaceable settlement of them.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson

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

Just tell me that I'm nothing but a pis aller, the sort of man you wouldn't want as a husband.

From The Song of Songs by Sudermann, Hermann

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