not be one to do something

not be one to do something
not be one to do something phrase
to not be the type of person who would do a particular thing

Martin’s not one to talk too much about his work.

Thesaurus: words used to describe someone's personalityhyponym general words for a person's charactersynonym
Main entry: one

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