outside of
outside of {prep.}
1. Not in; outside.
I would not want to meet a lion outside of a zoo.
Contrast: INSIDE OF.
2. Except for; not including.
Outside of Johnny, all the boys on the basketball team are over six feet tall.
Mrs. Cox had no jewelry outside of her wedding ring.
Syn.: APART FROM.
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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms
