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Republican state legislators say nothing doing.

He did not look her in the eye, as Billy Sunday suggests in his brisk way, and say, "Nothing doing."

As a stag fights when brought to bay, so Mister Masters when driven into a corner could talk as well and as freely as the next man; but on his own initiative there was, as we Americans say, "nothing doing."

Do you suppose that when a European princess is introduced to the prince she's going to marry, they let her say: 'Nothing doing.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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