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
And we know that this college basketball season opens with so many coaches handling these issues as they always have: saying nothing, doing nothing.
From Washington Post • Nov. 9, 2017
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
With nothing doing on Capitol Hill, Trump may increasingly start looking for successes overseas.
From Slate • Jul. 31, 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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