as a last resort
Related to as a last resort: as a first resort
as a last resort
As a final option, usually when preferable ones have failed. We will only pursue suspension as a last resort, so please improve your behavior in class. For now, I'm praying that the weather improves. I'm only going to cancel my flight as a last resort.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
as a last resort
as the last choice; if everything else fails. Call me at home only as a last resort. As a last resort, the doctor will perform surgery.
See also: last, resort
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- resort
- cut class
- change (one's) ways
- change your ways
- cut school
- mend (one's) ways
- mend one's ways
- mend ways
- mend your ways
- day job