pis aller
Example Sentences
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It is perhaps a pis aller, but is not No Thoroughfare written up everywhere else?
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell
She was merely amusing herself with him as a provincial pis aller.
From The Vision Splendid by Raine, William MacLeod
I miss my wholesome bitters, my daily dose of contradiction; and you need not be jealous of my book, for it is a miserable pis aller for our interminable talks.
From Records of a Girlhood by Kemble, Fanny
"Awful stick, but a pis aller I'm afraid."
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, 1890.05.10 by Various
Yet he is largely a pis aller for the would-be reader of Cassius Dio.
