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court of last resort

n. (context legal English) The final court of appeal in a jurisdiction; a supreme court.

Usage examples of "court of last resort".

There's no court of last resort when you lay plastered to his black leather couch telling him all your dirty stories which you know damned well he repeats to rouged Pacific Heights matrons over cocktails and chicken-shit crackers with dry salami from North Beach.

Navy would never act against the country's best interests) Corporation X, since it draws down DOD funds, must be staffed by the most loyal of directors) The Security Force, being hand-picked, is unquestionably the court of last resort, and we can safely rely on them to clear up this mess.

Callahan spat out the word fucking in a kind of desperate snarl, as men do when vulgarity has become for them a kind of linguistic court of last resort.

Hullah is a sort of Court of Last Resort and has patients other drs.