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Example sentences for "nothing doing"

  • Sometimes things get kind of dull--you know, when there's nothing doing, and this keeps me lively.

  • I'm going back to Newcastle this afternoon, there's nothing doing here.

  • When he comes back from Washington there'll be nothing doing.

  • See how he's throwing his feet up, trying to ease the strain, but there's nothing doing.

  • Give you my word for it, Frank; nothing doing," he asserted in his customary vigorous manner, that was usually very convincing.

  • He didn't come here declaring his intentions because he knew there would be nothing doing if the rustlers knew he was in the neighborhood.

  • Weaver had sent word to the riders of the Twin Star that there was to be nothing doing in the matter of the feud until his return.

  • Nothing doing, Budd," he called to the fat man.

  • He recalled the cruel answer, "Nothing doing," that she had indorsed on the stage-door letter he sent her long ago.

  • Cut out that kind of talk or there's nothing doing," said Connery.

  • That's why I guess there's nothing doing.

  • He just waits around awhile to see if any one's yearning to pump up his infantile tyre, and when he finds there's nothing doing, why, he starts right in to make his first fall off the straight line of virtue.

  • Guess there's nothing doing, Peter," he said slyly.

  • Rhett in South Carolina, Jefferson Davis in Mississippi, and above all Yancey in Alabama, together with the interests and sentiment which they represented, were almost ready to contest the orthodoxy of the policy of "nothing doing.

  • A marvelous fanatic--a sort of reincarnation of the grimmest of the Covenanters--by one daring act shattered the machine and made impossible any further coalition on the principle of "nothing doing.

  • He was too strong an intellect to continue the policy of "nothing doing" now that the crisis had come.

  • Nothing doing, though; he's always kicking her and punching her and pricking her with his dirk, and one time he even heated an iron and wanted to burn her.

  • And I tell you that there's nothing doing," answered the other.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    foreign language; generally regarded; great happiness; journey distant; minute afterwards; nothing about; nothing better; nothing but; nothing came; nothing could; nothing doing; nothing except; nothing further; nothing had; nothing like; nothing loth; nothing more; nothing much; nothing was; nothing whatever; nothing worth; nothing would; nothing wrong; other ideas; otherwise provided; time would