Meaning – What Does ‘A Man Apart’ Mean?

In general, this phrase is used when people (usually the villains or antagonists of some piece of fiction) are attempting to access who is at fault or the cause of a problem.

One person will assert that someone (but not them) is to blame. Then someone else proposes that the first person could be or is to blame (this could be the accused, or just a cohort of the first person with sympathies for the accused). The first person retorts with "Don't turn this back on me!".

So you could say it means "I refuse to talk about how I might be to blame." This phrase is really only used in that situation. It can't be used as a substitute for "Don't blame me!" or "Don't change the subject!".

The sentence means "Perhaps he will manage to survive in a difficult situation. He will try to do it on his own. He considers the ways of getting out of "here".