pis aller
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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
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 Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
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 Morley Roberts
It was nothing to either Herbert or me, for we both found Mrs. Day a much more lively pis aller in conversation than Eleanor.
From Boston Neighbours In Town and Out by Agnes Blake Poor
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 James Russell Lowell
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