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Last-ditch

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Final, as a last resort; done in desperation. idiomatic

    "a last-ditch attack"

Adjective
  1. 1
    of something done as a final recourse (especially to prevent a crisis or disaster) wordnet

Etymology

Popularized and given its current sense through an 1847 translation by Agnes Strickland of a quote attributed to William of Orange during the French invasion of 1672 on his being advised to surrender Holland to Louis XIV: "No, I mean to die in the last ditch."

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