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"word": "drug of last resort"
},
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"text": "I wouldn't recommend doing surgery on yourself, unless it is a last resort.",
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"ref": "1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 705",
"text": "The present writer was once asked to name what he considered to be \"the most typically English railway approach to a town\": a somewhat tall order, especially as such matters will always be, in the last resort, of individual opinion. But the unhesitating answer to this question (which has not been altered after many years of extended travel throughout England) was \"Sudbury, in Suffolk.\"",
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"The only remaining, often least desirable, option when all others have been excluded."
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"(idiomatic) The only remaining, often least desirable, option when all others have been excluded."
],
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"word": "last-ditch"
},
{
"word": "desperate times call for desperate measures"
},
{
"word": "last gasp"
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{
"word": "last stand"
},
{
"word": "in extremis"
}
],
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"word": "last refuge"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "only remaining option",
"word": "最後的一招"
},
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zuìhòu de yī zhāo",
"sense": "only remaining option",
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"sense": "only remaining option",
"word": "最後的手段"
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"roman": "zuìhòu de shǒuduàn",
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},
{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "only remaining option",
"word": "viimeinen vaihtoehto"
},
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "only remaining option",
"word": "viimeinen keino"
},
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "only remaining option",
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],
"word": "dernier recours"
},
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "only remaining option",
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"neuter"
],
"word": "letztes Mittel"
},
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"sense": "only remaining option",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "letzter Ausweg"
},
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "éschati lýsi",
"sense": "only remaining option",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "έσχατη λύση"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "only remaining option",
"word": "végső/legvégső eszköz/megoldás/mentsvár"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"note": "as a last resort",
"sense": "only remaining option",
"word": "ha minden kötél szakad"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "only remaining option",
"word": "végső esetben"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "only remaining option",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "neyðarúrræði"
},
{
"code": "is",
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"sense": "only remaining option",
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"word": "óyndisúrræði"
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{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "only remaining option",
"word": "cara pamungkas"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "only remaining option",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ultima risorsa"
},
{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "only remaining option",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ultima spiaggia"
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{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "saishū shudan",
"sense": "only remaining option",
"word": "最終手段"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "saigo no shudan",
"sense": "only remaining option",
"word": "最後の手段"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "choehuui sudan",
"sense": "only remaining option",
"word": "최후의 수단"
},
{
"code": "la",
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"sense": "only remaining option",
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"neuter",
"plural"
],
"word": "extrēma"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "zadno pribežište",
"sense": "only remaining option",
"word": "задно прибежиште"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"sense": "only remaining option",
"word": "آخرین حربه"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "only remaining option",
"word": "ostatnia deska ratunku"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "only remaining option",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "último recurso"
},
{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "only remaining option",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "derradeiro recurso"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "only remaining option",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "última instância"
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{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "only remaining option",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "último caso"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "poslédnjaja nadéžda",
"sense": "only remaining option",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "после́дняя наде́жда"
},
{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "only remaining option",
"word": "última esperanza"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "only remaining option",
"word": "única forma"
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"word": "tabla de salvación"
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],
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"(idiomatic) The only remaining, often least desirable, option when all others have been excluded."
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "only remaining option",
"word": "最後的一招"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zuìhòu de yī zhāo",
"sense": "only remaining option",
"word": "最后的一招"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "only remaining option",
"word": "最後的手段"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zuìhòu de shǒuduàn",
"sense": "only remaining option",
"word": "最后的手段"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "only remaining option",
"word": "viimeinen vaihtoehto"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "only remaining option",
"word": "viimeinen keino"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "only remaining option",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dernier recours"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "only remaining option",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "letztes Mittel"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "only remaining option",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "letzter Ausweg"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "éschati lýsi",
"sense": "only remaining option",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "έσχατη λύση"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "only remaining option",
"word": "végső/legvégső eszköz/megoldás/mentsvár"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"note": "as a last resort",
"sense": "only remaining option",
"word": "ha minden kötél szakad"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "only remaining option",
"word": "végső esetben"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "only remaining option",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "neyðarúrræði"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "only remaining option",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "óyndisúrræði"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "only remaining option",
"word": "cara pamungkas"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "only remaining option",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ultima risorsa"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "only remaining option",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ultima spiaggia"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "saishū shudan",
"sense": "only remaining option",
"word": "最終手段"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "saigo no shudan",
"sense": "only remaining option",
"word": "最後の手段"
},
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"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "choehuui sudan",
"sense": "only remaining option",
"word": "최후의 수단"
},
{
"code": "la",
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"sense": "only remaining option",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"plural"
],
"word": "extrēma"
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"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "zadno pribežište",
"sense": "only remaining option",
"word": "задно прибежиште"
},
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"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"sense": "only remaining option",
"word": "آخرین حربه"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "only remaining option",
"word": "ostatnia deska ratunku"
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{
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"sense": "only remaining option",
"tags": [
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"word": "último recurso"
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{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "only remaining option",
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"masculine"
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"word": "derradeiro recurso"
},
{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "only remaining option",
"tags": [
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"word": "última instância"
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"sense": "only remaining option",
"tags": [
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"word": "último caso"
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"sense": "only remaining option",
"tags": [
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"word": "после́дняя наде́жда"
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"word": "última esperanza"
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