one's got to do what one's got to do

English

Alternative forms

• one's gotta do what one's gotta do
• a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do

Phrase

one's got to do what one's got to do

1. A person must do what he or she feels obliged to do.
   • 2000, Warren Schultz, A Man's Garden, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, →OCLC:

     Sometimes a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do, even if his helpmate does not share his passion. Perhaps that's part of the attraction. Maybe a man wouldn't be so feverish about his garden if he had to share it with his partner, […]

Translations

do what a person feels is to be done by themselves

• German: ein Mann muss tun, was ein Mann eben tun muss (from the English), tun, was man nicht lassen kann