morph into pint-size(d), last resort

Jaiku Founder: "We're Not Dying, We're Morphing"
Washington Post - United States
Last week, Google announced that the company was unceremoniously discontinuing or at least ceasing development of a number of services it had launched or ...


NEWS ANALYSIS
Government as the Big Lender
By PETER S. GOODMAN
For millions of Americans, the government has morphed from lender of last resort into effectively the only lender.



Social psychologists like Sherry Turkle, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has studied the social impact of mobile communications, say these trends are likely to continue as cellphones morph into mini hand-held computers, social networking devices and pint-size movie screens.

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be your last resort
to be the only person or thing that might be able to help you, when every other person or possibility has failed:
You have to help me - you're my last resort.

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as a last resort (UK ALSO in the last resort)
if all other methods fail:
British police are supposed to use guns only as a last resort.


morph
verb [I or T]
to change one image into another, or combine them, using a computer program:
The video showed a man morphing into a tiger.

pint-size(d)
adjective INFORMAL
(of a person) small and not important:
Don't worry about him, he's just a pint-sized nobody.



pint Hide phonetics
noun [C]
1 a measure for liquid equal to about half a litre:
a pint of milk
a pint of beer

2 UK INFORMAL a pint of beer:
He usually goes out for a pint at lunchtime.