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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. [ … ] , volumes (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.
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