pis aller
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of pis aller
literally: (at) the worst going
Example Sentences
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There might be a way open, perhaps, by my offering to marry that worthy lady! but that would be quite a pis aller.
From North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
The young gentleman had recourse as a pis aller to his mamma.
From Love Me Little, Love Me Long by Charles Reade
As a pis aller, I look at Algy.
From Nancy by Rhoda Broughton
But this, it must be remembered, would leave the work of Southern Slav Unity incomplete, and is only to be regarded as a pis aller.
From The War and Democracy by
She was merely amusing herself with him as a provincial pis aller.
From The Vision Splendid by William MacLeod Raine
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