nothing doing
Example Sentences
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But so much of it still involves nothing: doing nothing, feeling nothing, going nowhere.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2024
Replays show the ball hit her arm only after bouncing up from her knee, so nothing doing and play continues.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2024
Leeds want a spot kick, and VAR has a look, but there’s nothing doing.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 5, 2022
Without a trace of complaint or hardship, he describes happily living in cramped apartments, earning nothing doing comedy and sledgehammering walls for $25 a day.
From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2017
Dunking them in the river, they won’t have it, no sir, nothing doing.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
