FAUTE DE MIEUX

PRONUNCIATION: (foht duh MYOO/MYUH)

MEANING: adverb: For want of something better.

ETYMOLOGY: From French faute (lack) + de (of) + mieux (better). Earliest documented use: 1766.
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FAUTE LEMIEUX - the Penguins are in trouble; Mario can't play tonight.

FAURÉ DE MIEUX - Gabriel's Requiem is the best ever

FAUTE DE MOI/EUX - Martin Buber was wrong. It's not "I/Thou;" it should be "Me/Them."

SAUTÉ DE MIEUX - That'd be Javier Sotomayor of Cuba. He high-jumped 2.45 m (8 ft 1⁄2 in) in Salamanca, Spain on 27 July 1993 to set the current Word's Record