nothing doing
: nothing that is currently occurring; nothing going on.
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: nothing that is currently occurring; nothing going on.
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(dated, idiomatic, now, chiefly, India) Absolutely not; definitely no.
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(informal, colloquial, chiefly, United States) Nothing.
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A flexible, catch-all word that shifts meaning depending on context. In its cleanest form, doings are activities, achievements, or social events — 'the doings at the community hall' or 'his recent doings at work.' Colloquially it also serves as a placeholder for anything the speaker doesn't want to name directly, making it a useful tool for polite vagueness. In dated Australian slang it carried a vulgar sense referring to sewage. In modern everyday speech, doings most often just means goings-on.
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