"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, 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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          "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"
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          "word": "no way Jose"
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          "ref": "1946 November 4, “MANAGEMENT: Bundy Saves & Shares”, in Time",
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