Meaning of nothing for it | Babel Free

Definitions

No alternative; nothing else to be done or to have recourse to.

idiomatic, uncountable

Examples

“"You will allow there was nothing for it after this but paying honest Joe Hodges's bill and departing."”

“I (whatever the others might do) saw nothing for it but to comply.”

“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.”

“There's nothing for it but to go forward, whether we know where we're going or not.”

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