nothing doing
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But so much of it still involves nothing: doing nothing, feeling nothing, going nowhere.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2024
Leeds felt they should have had a spot kick after Dan James went tumbling, but there was nothing doing from referee Oliver Langford.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2024
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
I keep my head down, but nothing doing.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
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