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last-ditch

[last-ditch] {adj.} Made or done as a last chance to keep from losing or tailing. * /He threw away his cigarettes in a last-ditch effort to stop smoking./ Compare: [BACK […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

last ditch

[last ditch] {n.} The last place that can be defended; the last resort. * /They will fight reform to the last ditch./ A Dictionary of American Idioms

last-ditch effort

[last-ditch effort] See: [LAST DITCH]. A Dictionary of American Idioms

Patrick Dennis, aka Edward Everett Tanner III

(1921-1976) U.S. author, in Life (7 December 1962) Writing isn't hard; no harder than ditch-digging. www.english-slang.com

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