plan B
noun1
An alternative approach adopted when one's original plan does not succeed.
- to (not) have a plan B
- After failing to find a wife by 40, he had to rely on plan B, a mail-order bride.
2 more examples
- She needed something else...A backup plan, a plan "B".2016, A.K. Brown, Jumpstart (Champagne Universe Series: Book 1), page 3:
- "There was no plan B, other than the Pendolino would have to run in non-tilt mode at 110mph."[…].2022 September 21, Chris Green tells Nick Brodrick, “It's absolutely my favourite train”, in RAIL, number 966, page 35:
- Related terms
- change one's battery, there is no Planet B