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pis aller

noun as in last resort

Weak matches

noun as in makeshift

Strong matches

Weak match

noun as in mixed blessing

Weak matches

noun as in stopgap

Strongest match

Strong matches

Weak match

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Example Sentences

It would be time enough to give in, and make the best of a pis aller , when he was forced to do so.

All this, of course, was but making the best of a pis-aller.

My poor fellow went off in a fit, last week, and I took that Irishman as a pis aller.

It was just a coincidence of the 'premier pas' and the 'pis aller.'

To the present writer it seems a pis aller which high-minded married persons should avoid if they can practise self-restraint.

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