pièce de résistance Idiom, Proverb

a pocket of resistance

a small group resisting, a few people not on side There's a pocket of resistance in one district. A few disagree.

pocket of resistance

(See a pocket of resistance)

path of least resistance

Idiom(s): path of least resistance

Theme: EASY

to do the easiest thing; to take the easiest route.
• John will follow the path of least resistance.
• I like challenges. I won't usually take the path of least resistance.

line of least resistance

Idiom(s): line of least resistance

Theme: EFFORT

the course of action that will cause least trouble or effort.
• Jane won't stand up for her rights. She always takes the line of least resistance.
• Joan never states her point of view. She takes the line of least resistance and agrees with everyone else.

line of least resistance|least resistance|line|pat

n. phr. The easiest way; the way that takes least effort. In becoming a doctor like his father John had really just followed the line of least resistance. Some parents take the path of least resistance with their children and let them do as they please.

least resistance, line of

least resistance, line of
Also, path of least resistance. The easiest method, way, or course of action. For example, He tends to do what most people seem to want, taking the line of least resistance. This term employs resistance in the sense of “the physical opposition of one thing or force to another,” a usage dating from the early 1600s. It has been used figuratively since about 1900.

resistance

resistance
see least resistance, line of.

the pièce de résistance

1. The best outstanding, remarkable, or admired achievement, accomplishment, aspect, event, etc., in a accustomed alternation or group. Mr. Reynolds has an absorbing gallery, but I'm told that his latest carve will be the pièce de résistance.2. The arch or featured bowl in a meal; the entrée. And now for the pièce de résistance—paupiettes of atramentous sole, served with asparagus spears and a affluent consommé.Learn more: DE, piece, resistance

your/the ˌpièce de réˈsistance

(from French) the best important or absorbing allotment of a accumulation or alternation of things: I achievement you all enjoyed your capital course. And now for my pièce de résistance: amber gateau!Learn more: DE, piece, resistance

pièce de résistance

The best notable or best awful admired affection of a accumulation or series; the brilliant attraction. Originally, from the 1790s or so, this French appellation consistently referred to a meal’s greatest airiness (an adapted amount of affair to French palates). By the mid-nineteenth aeon the appellation had been transferred to added outstanding items, at atomic in English. Thackeray, in an article (1840) about art, stated: “To accumulation the account lover with the pièces de résistance of the feast.”Learn more: DE, piece, resistance

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