backup plan

Wherever there's risk, a good backup plan is called for.

"What's the backup plan in case the truck does break down?"

He played a second heart, and South was now able to bring her backup plan into action.

But even if it hadn't, he said, they had a backup plan.

It had, she realized, been his backup plan from the first.

You should have a backup plan for everything that can go wrong.

And it didn't look like he had a backup plan.

If the $10 bill does not work out, the legacy project has a backup plan.

If that does not work out, she has a backup plan.

Next time, he told himself, he'd be sure to have a backup plan.