last resort
noun
an expedient adopted only in desperation
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`pis aller' is French for `worst going'
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last resort,
an attempt to solve a problem beyond which no further attempts are possible: »
Force, according to the doctrine of the just war, is to be used only as a last resort (Listener). One concept would make the federal government the “employer of last resort” (A. H. Raskin).
Useful english dictionary.
2012.