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not be somebody's department

  (informal)

if something is not your department, you are not responsible for dealing with it or you do not know much about it As regards getting your computer fixed, you'll have to ask someone else - I'm afraid it's not my department. In general doctors don't know much about nutrition: that's not their department.

See also: department