nothing for it

Noun

Meaning

nothing for it (uncountable)

(idiomatic, often followed by but) No alternative; nothing else to be done or to have recourse to.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

There was nothing for it but to pace through just behind or ahead of the spooling present that was never there, caught in the nonexistent interval between the nonexistent past and the nonexistent future. Kim Stanley Robinson

If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation. Arthur Eddington

This is space. It's sometimes called the final frontier. (Except that of course you can't have afrontier, because there'd be nothing for it to be a frontier, but as frontiers go, it's pretty penultimate...) Terry Pratchett

India needs a change - it cannot be ruled by 80-year-olds and by people who have done nothing for it. Arjun Rampal

I'm all for sharing music, but when people can download a whole record and pay nothing for it and then they share it with 100,000 other people, it's breaking down the whole business. Richie Sambora

Close letter words and terms

nothing else to say nothing else to tell nothing flat nothing in particular nothing is certain but death and taxes nothing is certain except death and taxes