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Nothing doing! definition

exclam.
No!; I refused to do it! : Me, go to the opera? Nothing doing!

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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