colloquial (originally Business). nothing doing: no transaction is happening (or has happened, or is likely). Now usually as an announcement of…
| 单词 | θ144505 |
| 释义 | the mind > language > statement > refusal > [noun] > a denial or refusal > announcement of (4) nothing doing1910 colloquial (originally Business). nothing doing: no transaction is happening (or has happened, or is likely). Now usually as an announcement of… no soap1926 no soap: an announcement of refusal of a request or offer, failure in an attempt, etc.; ‘nothing doing’. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). nossir1930 Used emphatically: certainly not’; ‘indeed not’. Cf. no siree, int. nyet1950 = no, n.1 1; a blunt refusal or dismissal. |
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