You can't delay the inevitable. "Delaying the inevitable" or "fighting the inevitable" are common ways of saying that you are trying to hold off something that will definitely happen in the future. For example, an old person who tries really hard to look youthful is just "delaying the inevitable." Self-fulfilling prophecy More @Wikipedia
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