not about to

Idioms  

1. see about to, def. 2.

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Example Sentences

And just as the night before, I was not about to be left behind.

From Literature

And she told me to wait where I stood, which I was not about to do.

From Literature

Clara loved her life and her work, and she was not about to let him destroy everything she had built with his apologies and excuses and his sweatiness and that look he’d get on his face, no matter how angry she was with him.

From Literature

Where Doyers Street ought to have been, there was nothing but ominous shadow that Molly was not about to test with her or her girlfriend’s life.

From Literature

Because when you allow people to be dehumanized, you stop caring about them — and Reiner was not about to let us stop caring.

From Los Angeles Times