not happening
Won't take place
Not happening is a dismissive declaration that something won't occur or isn't true—a flat refusal or denial.
Someone proposes a bad idea: That's not happening.
A friend asks if you're getting back with your ex: Not happening.
The phrase conveys finality, often with a note of incredulity that the possibility was even raised.
- unlikelyNot apt to happen
- not a chanceEmphatic refusal of possibility
- impossibleIncapable of occurring
- no wayEmphatic denial
- fat chanceSarcastic denial of possibility
canceled · off the table · postponed · no go · failed · stalled · derailed · dead end · abandoned · forgotten · missed · averted · prevented · blocked · stopped · halted · frozen · dead
- Boundary phrasesno, stop, enough, boundaries, off limits
- refusalsno, decline, no thanks, refuse, nope
- sarcastic rejectionsas if, dream on, fat chance, in your dreams, yeah right
- expressions of disavowalnot me, no way, I deny it, never, not guilty
- sarcastic phraseswhatever, who cares, yeah right, so what, why bother
- stubbornnessstubbornness, obstinacy, pigheadedness, bullheadedness, mulishness
occurrence/reality status
not happeninghappening
Event in progress
occurring · taking place · underway · in progress · going ahead