pis aller
Example Sentences
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It seemed to me, in my then ignorance, like a pis aller, when the postillion said, 'Let us try the "France,"' and little prepared me for the handsome, but somewhat small, hotel before me.
From Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands by Lever, Charles James
He knew very well he was the pis aller of the party, and only danced when Parson Frank was not dragged out, nothing loth, by his little daughter.
From Chantry House by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
Not that the law had any peculiar attraction for him; he rather accepted it as a pis aller; for, of course, he had to study something.
From Essays on Scandinavian Literature by Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth
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
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
