on the outside, looking in

Meaning: (idiomatic)Excludedfrom a group, process, or opportunity, and feelingdownheartedas a result.1964, “I’m On the Outside (Looking In)”, performed byLittle Anthony and the Imperials:Won't you take me back again? I'll be waiting here till then /On the outside looking in1988August 24, Mervyn Rothstein, “Kirk Douglas And Anger”, inNew York Times‎[1], retrieved2 August 2015:"In a sense, I've always felton the outside, looking in," Mr. Douglas says. "It's my background, damn it. My father was an illiterate Russian immigrant, a ragman, the lowest rung on the economic scale. There were six sisters and my mother; I was the only boy. To be a young Jewish boy in a town—Amsterdam, in upstate New York—that was quite anti-Semitic."1997May 18, Marianne Macdonald, “Who is Paul Theroux?”, inIndependent (UK)‎[2], retrieved2 August 2015:A recurrent theme of Theroux's books is this sense of being an alien,on the outside looking in.2007August 2, Ishaan Tharoor, “India's Democratic Advantage”, inTime‎[3], retrieved2 August 2015:While China's economy soars, hundreds of millions of migrant workers and rural peasants have been lefton the outside looking in.

Examples:

EN: Not when you're on the outside, looking in.
ES: No cuando estás fuera y miras dentro.
EN: Eve and I are both on the outside, looking in.
ES: Eve y yo estamos los dos fuera, observando.
EN: In so many other ways we were on the outside, looking in.
ES: En otros aspectos estábamos fuera, mirando hacia el interior.
EN: I feel like I'm on the outside, looking in.
ES: Siento como si estuviera afuera mirando hacia adentro.
EN: But tonight I walked into that gym the Mayor of Tree Hill, but I finished the night a father on the outside, looking in at a son who deserves better.
ES: Pero hoy entré a ese gimnasio como alcalde de Tree Hill y terminé la noche a un hijo que se merece algo mejor.
EN: I was kept on the outside, looking in, for over 20 years.
ES: Estuve mirando desde afuera por más de 20 años.
EN: When it came to the two of you, I was on the outside, looking in.
ES: Cuando se trataba de vosotros dos, yo estaba fuera, mirando adentro.
EN: But now you make me stand on the outside, looking in, Brushing shoulders with royalty while I cool my heels out here.
ES: Pero ahora haces que me quede fuera, mirando dentro, codeándome con la realeza mientras enfrío mis pantalones aquí fuera.
EN: The rest of the time, it's me on the outside, looking in.
ES: El resto del tiempo, yo estoy fuera, mirando.
EN: I am currently on the outside, looking in.
ES: Actualmente estoy afuera y miro hacia adentro.
EN: The Norwegians will be on the outside, looking in.
ES: Los noruegos estarán a la cola, mirando hacia delante.
EN: You got no idea what it's like, always living on the outside, looking in through a window, seeing all the things you can never have because they say so.
ES: no tienes idea lo que es, vivir siempre afuera, mirando a través de una ventana, viendo todas las cosas que nunca tendras porqué ellos lo dicen.
EN: You're happier on the outside, looking in.
ES: Eres más feliz por fuera, mirando desde dentro.
EN: I feel as if I am always on the outside, looking in.
ES: Siento que siempre me quedo afuera.
EN: We're very similar, you and I. Both on the outside, looking in.
ES: Los dos vemos las cosas desde afuera.

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