if nothing else

if nothing else

A phrase used to indicate that something is a priority or the most important thing. I know you're busy today, so if nothing else, please make sure you respond to these messages. If nothing else, we'll at least get our money back.
See also: else, if, nothing
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • eggs is eggs
  • How long is a piece of string?
  • from my cold, dead hands
  • (as) sure as eggs (is eggs)
  • sure as eggs is eggs
  • going, going, gone
  • going, going, gone!
  • how about
  • how/what about...?
  • and the rest
References in periodicals archive
What 2000 years of history (if nothing else) have revealed is that the material and the spiritual, when they work together, create, when the spiritual is emphasized, the understanding and living of the Gospel, and, when the material is emphasized, human progress (including our technology, magnificent and triumphant when it is life-giving, a parody of progress when dedicated to the production of arms and suction machines, condoms and petridishes).
Temptation of Christ