Nothing For It Meaning

Nothing For It is an idiom. The meaning of this idiom is (idiomatic, often followed by but) No alternative; nothing else to be done or to have recourse to.. Explore more Idiom Meanings.

Nothing For It

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

Example : 1815, Sir Walter Scott, Guy Mannering, ch. 21:  "You will allow there was nothing for it after this but paying honest Joe Hodges's bill and departing."1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch. 5:  I (whatever the others might do) saw nothing for it but to comply.1915, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, ch. 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," Washington Post (retrieved 5 May 2015):  There's nothing for it but to go forward, whether we know where we're going or not.

Meaning of Nothing For It

Nothing For It is an idiom. It is one of the most commonly used expressions in English writings. Nothing For It stands for (idiomatic, often followed by but) No alternative; nothing else to be done or to have recourse to.. Explore Urdupoint to find out more popular Idioms and Idiom Meanings, to amplify your writings

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