pis aller
Example Sentences
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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
Too much forethought is fatal to progress, and if I had really considered difficulties I could have stayed in England and written a story instead, a most loathsome pis aller.
From A Tramp's Notebook by Roberts, Morley
"Awful stick, but a pis aller I'm afraid."
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, 1890.05.10 by Various
There might be a way open, perhaps, by my offering to marry that worthy lady! but that would be quite a pis aller.
From North and South by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
It is jolly good often, but only a pis aller in comparison to the real thing.
From The Price of Things by Glyn, Elinor
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
