- except for somebody/something
- The students all attended, bar two who were ill.
- All bar one of the employees lost their jobs.
- It's the best result we've ever had, bar none (= none was better).
- Bar a few changes to the kitchen, the house is the same as when Mozart lived here.
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Idioms
See bar in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee bar in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishbe all over bar the shouting
- (British English) (of an activity or a competition) to be almost finished or decided, so that there is no doubt about the final result
- The game is all over bar the shouting.
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