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
“I make next to nothing doing a job that I love,” Peacock told the board in November.
From Washington Post • Nov. 29, 2021
Seeing nothing, hearing nothing, doing nothing on their side of the bridge, on the NJ roads approaching the bridge where they are responsible?
From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2016
Dunking them in the river, they won’t have it, no sir, nothing doing.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
