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nothing doing
Idioms and Phrases
Certainly not, as in Can I borrow your down coat?—Nothing doing . This colloquial interjection was first recorded in 1910. Also see, no dice .Example Sentences
“I considered many times just silently leaving Andrew and saying nothing, doing nothing, because I was scared and because it was honestly hard for me to accept that I was being abused. But I can now see that doing so would be the cowardly approach.â€
In “Nothing Doing,†a work-in-progress, clown Alex Tatarsky announced at the top that they didn’t believe in work or progress.
But so much of it still involves nothing: doing nothing, feeling nothing, going nowhere.
Axel Tuanzebe, already on a booking, looks like he checks a Norwich player but nothing doing, the away side go down the other end and Omari Hucthinson goes down in the area under the attentions of Borja Sainz.
Jimmy's prediction: Nothing doing for Villa here!
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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