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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
As a "last resort" once all other food is exhausted, it has emergency stocks of fortified nutritional biscuits for 415,000 people.
"B&B and hotels should only be used as a last resort and where possible people experiencing homelessness should be placed appropriately in temporary accommodation best suited to their needs."
If evacuation is impossible, your last resort could be going to the third or higher floor of a sturdy building, or even climbing a tree.
Campaigner Ruth Kettle-Frisby says legal action is a "last resort" for locals who have fought "for decades, to no avail".
The Solicitor General had separately asked judges to increase Sharif's "unduly lenient" sentence to a whole life order, but Lady Justice Carr said that was a sentence of "last resort".
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