pis aller
Example Sentences
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As a pis aller, I look at Algy.
From Nancy by Rhoda Broughton
If conscience must reign supreme, all government is a pis aller, and in anarchy the true millennium must be found.
From Henry VIII. by A. F. (Albert Frederick) Pollard
"Awful stick, but a pis aller I'm afraid."
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, 1890.05.10 by Various
As for Maud, she finds Beulah uneasy about Beekman; and having no husband herself, or any over that she cares a straw about, why she just falls upon Bob as a pis aller.
From Wyandotte by James Fenimore Cooper
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
