present company excepted
used to show that a criticism or a rude remark does not refer to the people you are talking to:
People here just don't know how to dress, present company excepted.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Excluding
- acid-free
- alienate
- apart
- bar
- barring
- cut
- discount
- exclude
- excluding
- exclusion
- exclusive
- exclusively
- freeze sb out
- hold
- otherwise
- out of it idiom
- outside
- present
- send
- send sb to Coventry idiom
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