nothing for it | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,often preceded bythere+beand followed bybut)Noalternative; nothing else to be done or to haverecourseto.1815February 24, [Walter Scott], chapter 21, inGuy Mannering; or, The Astrologer.[…], volume(please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh:[…]James Ballantyne and Co.forLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown,[…]; andArchibald Constable and Co.,[…],→OCLC:"You will allow there wasnothing for itafter this but paying honest Joe Hodges's bill and departing."1852March –1853September,Charles Dickens, chapter 5, inBleak House, London:Bradbury and Evans,[…], published1853,→OCLC:I (whatever the others might do) sawnothing for itbut to comply.1916December 29,James Joyce, chapter I, inA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.:B[enjamin] W. Huebsch,→OCLC,page 5:I missed the train home and I couldn't get any kind of a yoke to give me a lift. . . . So there wasnothing for itonly to stay the night or to foot it out.2010June 25,Carolyn See, “Book World: Vendela Vida'sThe Lovers”, inWashington Post, retrieved5 May 2015:There'snothing for itbut to go forward, whether we know where we're going or not.

Examples:

EN: You'll take something. - I told you, I don't want nothing for it.
ES: - Le he dicho que no quiero nada.
EN: Our country is coming into this business and so there's nothing for it.
ES: Ofreceré mis servicios por si sirve de algo.
EN: There's nothing for it but to go to the club and grumble about staying in London. - I'll be getting along.
ES: Sólo me queda ir al club y lamentarme por quedarme en Londres.
EN: Well, I'm afraid there's nothing for it but for me to go into a trance.
ES: Bien, me temo que no me queda más remedio que entrar en trance.
EN: There's nothing for it, we'll have to stay here.
ES: No hay nada que hacer, tendremos que quedarnos aquí.
EN: I do nothing for it, maybe?
ES: ¡No niegue que lo merezco!
EN: Then I'm very sorry, but there's nothing for it.
ES: Me duele la cabeza!
EN: Well, there's nothing for it.
ES: No hay más remedio.
EN: There is nothing for it. We must send him to Britain, and forget this ever happened.
ES: Lo que hay que hacer ahora es llevarlo a Britania para que pueda olvidar este bochorno.
EN: Well, there's nothing for it but for you to file a complaint.
ES: Disculpe.
EN: - I've got nothing for it.
ES: - No tengo nada con qué curarla.
EN: You've done nothing for it.
ES: No te lo has ganado.
EN: There's nothing for it, my boy, but we shall....
ES: No hay nada que hacer, mi joven amigo, pero vamos a ...
EN: You owe me nothing for it.
ES: Por eso no me debes nada.
EN: And I believe gives... nothing for it.
ES: Y parece... no darle importancia.

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