pis-aller
See also: pis aller
French
FWOTD – 9 February 2023
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pi.z‿a.le/
Audio (Paris) (file)
Noun
pis-aller m (plural pis-aller)
- make-do, a less than optimal solution, workaround, stopgap
- plan B; last resort
- 1994, Michel Houellebecq, Extension du domaine de la lutte:
- Aussi ai-je toujours senti, chez les femmes qui m’ouvraient leurs organes, comme une légère réticence ; au fond je ne représentais guère, pour elles, qu’un pis-aller.
- I also always sensed, in the women who would spread their legs for me, a slight reluctance; ultimately, to them I was just a last resort.
- worst case scenario
Descendants
- → English: pis aller
Further reading
- “pis-aller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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