not be the marrying kind
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› If a man is not the marrying kind, he does not want to be married. People sometimes use this phrase to mean that the man is gay.Marital status
(Definition of not be the marrying kind from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- bachelor noun
- common-law adjective
- divorcee noun
- divorcé noun
- estranged adjective
- lone adjective
- married adjective
- Miss noun
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