apart from

apart from

Except for; excluding. Apart from math, my grades are very good this semester. I love this car—apart from the price tag, of course.
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live apart (from someone)

To live in a separate location from someone with whom one formerly shared a house. My parents aren't divorced, but they've been living apart for the last few years. I just think we should live apart from each other for a while, at least until all these legal issues are resolved.
See also: apart, live
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

apart from

Also, aside from. Besides, except for. For example, Apart from jogging occasionally in the park, she gets no exercise, or Aside from Sunday dinner with his parents they have not gone out for months. The first term dates from the early 1600s, the variant from the early 1800s.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
See also:
  • live apart (from someone)
  • come apart
  • tear a place apart
  • tear apart
  • tear someone/something apart
  • take apart
  • take someone or something apart
  • take someone/something apart
  • hack apart
  • crumble
References in periodicals archive
"Apart from keeping us competitive and profitable in an era of shameful money madness.
"Apart from changing the first five letters of his name to the first five letters of our club's (that did really happen, right?).
All the ballets were presented in extracts, and, naturally enough, apart from the inevitable bit from Carmen, the program concentrated on the works that Petit had created in Marseilles, some of which the company brought on its various tours to the United States.
What sets McDonough apart from many environmental thinkers is his belief in "eco-effectiveness," which takes cues from nature on how best to design systems.
Apart from these uses it becomes, by virtue of its width, close to magic.
A mission statement on his job would amount to a couple of pages of A4 which would in turn remind the British people that apart from having a personal fortune of pounds 382million, apart from raking in pounds 10million a year from the Duchy of Cornwall and apart from opening a few factories and showing his face at charitable functions, being heir to the throne involves doing...
Actually I got all that latter stuff, apart from the talking, from GDL Technology at www.gdlcentral.com.
Apart from Peter Murray's prestigious closed-entry Architecture Club, there is a livery company, several dining clubs which foregather every second month in City livery halls and conduct slightly unhygienic rituals, proper Masonic lodges, hundreds of save this and that century's architecture societies, the private view invite lists of the multitude of architecture-related institutions and museums, groups of likeminded people which meet informally and occasionally give themselves a joke name (one was called the Philistine Fellowship) -- plus a lot more whose existence is either apocryphal or carefully hidden from the ears of the press.
Apart from Herzog's huge new roof -- an ingenious and fine piece, if rather heavy -- and obviously, the cable cars, will there be any permanent contribution to the good of the fair site?
GERRY Loughran, the first Catholic to head the Civil Service, is an Old Boy of St Malachy's College, Belfast, probably the leading school in its field, apart from St.
The College has since turned out a plethora of priests and cardinals, but apart from Loughran I can't think of anybody really distinguished.
The design department of a giant car company has been gathered into one building; its expressive form sets it apart from the rest of the works.
The silvery fan-shaped Design Centre stands apart from the gridded orthogonal buildings that make up the rest of the works.
The original skin, which provides adequate weatherproof shelter, has been left untouched apart from the insertion of a glass roof-light strip, and ventilation louvres at the pitch and under the eaves.
Apart from the nineteenth-century Jernbanetorg, which lies in front of the old station and its neighbouring successor, there is no attempt to generate public open space.