nothing for it

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English

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nothing else for it

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Noun

nothing for it (uncountable)

(idiomatic, often preceded by there + be and followed by but) No alternative; nothing else to be done or to have recourse to.
- 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], chapter 21, in Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. , volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, ; and Archibald Constable and Co., , →OCLC:
  "You will allow there was nothing for it after this but paying honest Joe Hodges's bill and departing."
- 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 5, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, , published 1853, →OCLC:
  I (whatever the others might do) saw nothing for it but to comply.
- 1916 December 29, James Joyce, chapter I, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 5:
  I missed the train home and I couldn't get any kind of a yoke to give me a lift. . . . So there was nothing for it only to stay the night or to foot it out.
- 2010 June 25, Carolyn See, “Book World: Vendela Vida's The Lovers”, in Washington Post, retrieved 5 May 2015:
  There's nothing for it but to go forward, whether we know where we're going or not.

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