pis aller
Example Sentences
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Soh! she would secure me as a pis aller, I suppose, in case Mr. Rashleigh Osbaldistone should not take compassion upon her!
From Rob Roy — Volume 01 by Scott, Walter, Sir
"Ce serait toujours un pis aller," said Jacobi, seating himself with calmness in Ratcliffe's favourite chair by Mrs. Lee's side.
From Democracy, an American novel by Adams, Henry
But don't you see, if it is said that she was obliged to leave Milan, it puts us in the position of a pis aller!
From A Siren by Trollope, Thomas Adolphus
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
As for their Sanscrit studies again, that was at bottom only a pis aller.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 by Various
