"nothing doing" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1917, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 11, in The Sheriff's Son:",
          "text": "\"I'll fix his clock all right.\"\n\"Nothing doing. I won't have it.\"",
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          "ref": "1920, Victor Appleton, chapter 1, in Tom Swift And His Undersea Search:",
          "text": "\"[P]erhaps you might sell them a submarine or some of your diving apparatus.\"\n\"Nothing doing, Ned. We've got other plans.\"",
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          "ref": "1946 November 4, “MANAGEMENT: Bundy Saves & Shares”, in Time:",
          "text": "[T]he employes of Detroit's Bundy Tubing Co. wanted a raise of 18 1/2 cents an hour. Said Bundy flatly: nothing doing.",
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          "ref": "2008, Preeta Samarasan, Evening is the Whole Day, →ISBN, page 255:",
          "text": "[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.",
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        "Absolutely not; definitely no."
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        "(dated, idiomatic, now chiefly India) Absolutely not; definitely no."
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          "text": "\"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.\"",
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          "ref": "1870–1871 (date written), Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXIX, in Roughing It, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company [et al.], published 1872, →OCLC, page 214:",
          "text": "There was nothing doing in the district—no mining—no milling—no productive effort—no income—[…]",
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          "ref": "1922, Agatha Christie, chapter 11, in The Secret Adversary:",
          "text": "I began to think that there was nothing doing, that he'd just come on the trip for his health.",
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          "ref": "2010, Lee Child, Persuader, →ISBN, page 58:",
          "text": "There was nothing doing in the kitchen.",
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see nothing, doing: nothing that is currently occurring; nothing going on."
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          "word": "no can do"
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          "word": "by no means"
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          "word": "no dice"
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          "word": "no way Jose"
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