faute de mieux

Etymology
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Adverb

 * 1) For want of something better; for lack of an alternative; as a makeshift.
 * 2) * 1823, "Select Society, With Observations on the Modern Art of Matchmaking", in The New Monthly Magazine,by C. M., pub. E. W. Allen,, volume 8 pages 91-92:
 * Then, Alas! any body was company for every body and the first lord of the land did not think it shame, faute de mieux, to take up with the conversation of his butler, or his game-keeper, over a tankard; while the young ladies, faute de tout, danced "Bobbing Joan," with the rest of the domestics in the servants' hall.

Translations

 * Danish: i mangel af bedre
 * Finnish: paremman puutteessa
 * French:
 * Ido: en manko di (ulo) plu bona
 * Russian: за неиме́нием лучшего

Adverb

 * 1) for want of something better,