pis aller
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As a pis aller, I look at Algy.
From Nancy by Broughton, Rhoda
If conscience must reign supreme, all government is a pis aller, and in anarchy the true millennium must be found.
From Henry VIII. by Pollard, A. F. (Albert Frederick)
She was merely amusing herself with him as a provincial pis aller.
From The Vision Splendid by Raine, William MacLeod
Substitutes for butcher’s meat too often suggest the purely vegetarian dish that to most people is but a pis aller.
From Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women by Various
This I suppose the pis aller of their affairs, while their probable event is a peaceable settlement of them.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson
