a last resort

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   the person or thing you rely on when everything else has failed

   Let's try to use violence as a last resort.

In the movies · 5

• I thought this was a shelter of last resort.The Batman2022
• Let's try to use violence as a last resort.Transformers: Age of Extinction2014
• I mean, I’d play with Barbie, but it was, like, the last resort.Barbie2023
• And not as a last resort.Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire2005
• Tear gas as a last resort only.Argo2012
• What should be a last resort is becoming a first response.Shutter Island2010
• the city's shelter of last resort.The Batman2022
• as the venue becomes the city's shelter of last resort.The Batman2022

Learn it in full scenes

• Barbie2023
  • Barbie Rewrites the Doll Story
  • Barbie's Perfect Day in Barbie Land
  • Ken Beaches Off and Gets Hurt

From the same entry

• be on your last legs
• the day, week, month, before last
• every last
• have the last laugh
• in the last resort
• your last gasp
• the last minute
• the last word
• in the final analysis
• his last breath
• famous last words
• at long last

More idioms

• yes and no
• i'm sorry to say
• without fail
• pick a fight
• without exception
• wouldn't be seen dead
• make use of
• with open arms
• on the run
• yes sir
• at expense
• be good friends