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last resort

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Noun1.last resort - an expedient adopted only in desperation; "`pis aller' is French for `worst going'"
pis aller
expedient - a means to an end; not necessarily a principled or ethical one


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The great deliberate moon Now leans toward the last resort of night, Gloom of the western waves.
A Lute of Jade by Cranmer-Byng, L. View in context
And as upon the invasion of their valleys, the frosty Swiss have retreated to their mountains; so, hunted from the savannas and glades of the middle seas, the whale-bone whales can at last resort to their Polar citadels, and diving under the ultimate glassy barriers and walls there, come up among icy fields and floes; and in a charmed circle of everlasting December, bid defiance to all pursuit from man.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
Lastly (it was perhaps fanciful, even fatuous), I guessed that Miss Tita personally would not in the last resort be less my friend.
The Aspern Papers by James, Henry View in context
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