present company excepted

alternative present company excluded

1. idiomaticThese negative remarks do not pertain to anyone who is currently listening to them (including the speaker).

   Well, even Stanford guys aren't perfect (present company excepted, of course).

   2009 December 2, Romesh Ratnesar, Bill Saporito, “How Will Tiger Woods' Apology Affect His Image?”, in Time

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   Everybody it appears, the present company excepted, has plotted against Mrs Snagsby’s peace.

   1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 54, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC

   "I say, Reggie, old thing—present company excepted—have there been any loonies in your family?"

   1920 March – 1921 February, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter 26, in Indiscretions of Archie, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published 1921, →OCLC

   Am I glad we finally got rid of all those Klingons—er, present company excepted, of course.

   1995 October 2, Ira Steven Behr, Robert Hewitt Wolfe, “The Way of the Warrior”, in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, season 4, episode 1, spoken by Quark