pis aller
Example Sentences
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I can lead the horses,” he suggested as a pis aller.
From At Fault by Chopin, Kate
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
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
Dinner was looked forward to with curiosity, as well as appetite; my wife, as usual, distrusting our experiments, was not sanguine of success, and made ready some plain food as a pis aller.
From The Swiss Family Robinson or, Adventures on a Desert Island by Wyss, Jean Rudolph
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 Poor, Agnes Blake
