do nothing

English

Verb

do nothing (third-person singular simple present does nothing, present participle doing nothing, simple past did nothing, past participle done nothing)

  1. To not take any action; to fail to do or accomplish something.
    "That colour does nothing for you" "Argh! And you do nothing but complain bout everything!"
    The new zero tolerance rules did nothing to make the school safer and improve its atmosphere; in fact, these rules may have made the school less safe and less desirable instead.
    • 2023 May 31, Nigel Harris, “GBR now! We have no Plan B”, in RAIL, number 984, page 3:
      But doing nothing is not an option. Our railway has been drifting, leaderless, for a couple of years. Sunak should also ponder as he panders.
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