it can't be helped
used to say that an unpleasant or painful situation, or an unwanted duty cannot be avoided and must be accepted:
I really didn't want to go away this weekend but, oh well, it can't be helped.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Inevitable
- all roads lead to Rome idiom
- automatic
- automatically
- be (only) a matter of time idiom
- be damned if you do and damned if you don't idiom
- be nothing for it idiom
- be part and parcel of sth idiom
- damned
- doom
- fate
- fated
- implacable
- inevitably
- inexorable
- matter
- relentless
- remorseless
- seal
- seal sb's fate idiom
- unstoppable
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