на нет и суда нет

• НА НЕТ И СУДА НЕТ{{}}

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⇒ used to express resignation to, but not dissatisfaction with, the absence of sth., s.o.'s refusal to do sth. etc:

- ≈ if s.o. doesn't <can't, hasn't etc>, then s.o. doesn't <can't, hasn't etc>;

- if it hasn't come (didn't happen etc ), it hasn't (come) <didn't (happen) etc>;

- if that's the way it is < s.o. feels about it etc> then there's nothing to be done about it;

- so be it;

- what cannot be cured must be endured.

     ♦ [Кочкарёв:] Да ведь вы слышали, у ней приданого ничего нет. [Жевакин:] На нет и суда нет (Гоголь 1). [К.:] But you must have heard. She's got no dowry. [Zh.:] If she hasn't, then she hasn't (1a).

     ♦ "Сегодня вас не ждали, батюшка, говядинки не привезли", - промолвил Тимофеич... "И без говядинки обойдёмся, на нет и суда нет" (Тургенев 2). "They didn't expect you today, master, and the beef's not come," announced Timofeyich. ..."We'll manage without the beef, if it's not there, it's not" (2e).