Meaning of nothing doing | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Absolutely not; definitely no.
   India, dated, idiomatic
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see nothing, doing: nothing that is currently occurring; nothing going on.

Examples

“"I'll fix his clock all right." "Nothing doing. I won't have it."”

“"[P]erhaps you might sell them a submarine or some of your diving apparatus." "Nothing doing, Ned. We've got other plans."”

“[T]he employes of Detroit's Bundy Tubing Co. wanted a raise of 18 1/2 cents an hour. Said Bundy flatly: nothing doing.”

“[S]he'd consoled herself with a fresh plan: she'd refuse to go to her father when he came back. Nothing doing, she'd say.”

“"You see, Walter," he said, "in truth this business is merely a habit with me . . . but there's nothing doing, nothing doing. . . . I hardly know where I am myself; much less where my customers are."”

“There was nothing doing in the district—no mining—no milling—no productive effort—no income—[…]”

“I began to think that there was nothing doing, that he'd just come on the trip for his health.”

“There was nothing doing in the kitchen.”

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