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on the outside

Meaning

On the outer surface
Antonym: on the inside

To outward appearances

(UK) Not in prison

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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Agility and balance were built and tested by running and jumping for sport, and there is mention of a sport that involved jumping from oar to oar on the outside of a ship's railing as it was being rowed. Source: Internet

And he’s a kid that “seems” typical on the outside so people are often confused when he has a meltdown for no reason. Source: Internet

After a dive into a backbreaker on the outside, Gibson brings him. Source: Internet

A key advantage for this technology is that the instrument is not required to be in contact with the fluid—typically the source and detector are mounted on the outside of tanks or piping. Source: Internet

Although it serves as a rival to Confucianism, a school of active morality, this rivalry is compromised and given perspective by the idiom "practise Confucianism on the outside, Taoism on the inside." Source: Internet

An often-used analogy to the cryptographic blind signature is the physical act of a voter enclosing a completed anonymous ballot in a special carbon paper lined envelope that has the voter’s credentials pre-printed on the outside. Source: Internet

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