outside of

outside of

1. Outside.
   • 1890, Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives,

     It never happens outside of the story-books that a baby so deserted finds home and friends at once.

   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles,

     "Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what to-morrow has in store?"

2. Aside from; besides.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 5, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.

   • 1954, Jim Brewer, Boys' Life, volume 44, number 2, Think and Grin, page 78, column 1:

     A book is a man’s best friend outside of a dog, and inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.