aside from someone or something

aside from someone or something
aside from someone or something
not including someone or something. •

Aside from a small bank account, I have no money at all.

Aside from Mary, Nancy, Craig, and Phil, I have no friends on campus.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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