Desperate Times Call For Desperate Measures

When you are extremely desperate you need to take extremely desperate actions.

This phrase likely originates with a saying of the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, which appears in his Aphorisms: "For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable.

Ex: A man has gangrene on his leg and decides to chop it off as he would die if he didn’t. A man asks him later why he did it and he says: Desperate times call for desperate measures.



Spanish: A grandes males, grandes remedios.



German: Verzweifelte Situationen erfordern verzweifelte Maßnahmen.