Idiom
nothing for it
Meaning
No alternative; nothing else to be done or to have recourse to.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The car won't start, so there is nothing for it but to walk.”
“The train was cancelled and the next bus is hours away, so there is nothing for it but to call a taxi.”
“With the storm destroying the only bridge in town, there was nothing for it but to wait for the rescue team to arrive.”
Examples
simple
“The car won't start, so there is nothing for it but to walk.”
contextual
“The train was cancelled and the next bus is hours away, so there is nothing for it but to call a taxi.”
complex
“With the storm destroying the only bridge in town, there was nothing for it but to wait for the rescue team to arrive.”
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