English / proverb
Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures
MEANING IN ENGLISH
Extreme, crisis-level circumstances require urgent, radical, or unconventional actions to resolve.
In context
01
When the plant faced imminent bankruptcy, leadership slashed executive bonuses because desperate times call for desperate measures.
02
We temporarily reallocated half the sales force to production line packaging; desperate times call for desperate measures.
Synonyms
drastic times call for drastic measures,extreme situations demand extreme remedies,necessity knows no law
Antonyms
business as usual,gentle measures,status quo
Collocations
remember desperate times call for desperate measures,clearly desperate times call for desperate measures,prove desperate times call for desperate measures