nothing doing
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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
Somehow it manifests the presence of waves even though, as far as we can tell, there’s nothing doing any waving.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2018
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
“There was nothing doing, no fish. I ran up to Elliot Head real slow like. A fog run. I had my horn going.”
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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