Is there something like except in jQuery?

Question

How is this possible? Following construction does not work:

$('.multibutton').click(function(event) {

    //.. some stuff before

    $(this).next('.menu').slideDown( "slow");

    // hide all other menus except this.next.menu
    $('.menu :not(this.next)').hide();

    //.. some stuff after
});

thank you

Answer 1

$('.multibutton').click(function(event) {

    //.. some stuff before

    var elem = $(this).next('.menu').slideDown( "slow");

    // hide all other menus except this.next.menu
    $('.menu').not(elem).hide();

    //.. some stuff after
});