Definition
Absolutely not; definitely no.
In Context
- ""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."