nothing doing
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.27 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
intj
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see nothing, doing: nothing that is currently occurring; nothing going on.
Example Sentences
- ""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—[…]"