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last resort
Idioms and Phrases
A final expedient or recourse to achieve some end or settle a difficulty. For example, If you don't improve, we'll try this new medication as a last resort . This term originally referred to a court of law from which there was no appeal. [Late 1600s]Example Sentences
Three women said they had severe acne and the doctors tried birth control pills as a last resort.
“The news media is—now more than ever before—the court of last resort,” continues Sussman.
I am in favor of trying and trying the diplomatic route, which we seem to approach as a last resort, not a first one.
Such a measure,” says the Russian president, “would certainly be the very last resort.
The thought of pulling a gun and firing ceases to be the very last resort.
Words and phrases from a foreign language should be used only as a last resort.
It was not difficult to push her to her last resort—namely, crying silently behind her apron.
We took from it a few cocoa-nuts, and, as our last resort, all took refuge in the boat.
Still, since I had come hither as a last resort, it would do no good for me to go back unsuccessful.
As a last resort he could blow out his brains and have it ended.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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