About + infinitive means 'going to very soon'; 'just going to':
Don't go out now - we're about to have lunch.
I was about to go to bed when the telephone rang.
In informal American English, not about to can mean 'unwilling to':
I'm not about to pay 100 dollars for that dress.
2.18.2008
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