Meanings of pis aller in English

Yet it is characteristic of him that he always tended to regard the writing of verse as a ' pis aller'.

The purpose of this chapter is sufficiently served in indicating that this proposal also is a pis aller, a desperate second best-liketeetotalism.

But don't you see, if it is said that she was obliged to leave Milan, it puts us in the position of a pis aller!

'In a bad school: as a pis aller one might put up with him.

"Ce serait toujours un pis aller," said Jacobi, seating himself with calmness in Ratcliffe's favourite chair by Mrs. Lee's side.