Definition
No alternative; nothing else to be done or to have recourse to.
In Context
- ""You will allow there was nothing for it after this but paying honest Joe Hodges's bill and departing.""
- "I (whatever the others might do) saw nothing for it but to comply."
- "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."
- "There's nothing for it but to go forward, whether we know where we're going or not."