diff --git a/script/clang-tidy b/script/clang-tidy
index 47f59e62a4..633b8d4b7d 100755
--- a/script/clang-tidy
+++ b/script/clang-tidy
@@ -247,6 +247,12 @@ def main():
         action="append",
         help="only run on files containing value",
     )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "-x",
+        "--exclude-grep",
+        action="append",
+        help="skip files containing value",
+    )
     parser.add_argument(
         "--split-num", type=int, help="split the files into X jobs.", default=None
     )
@@ -281,6 +287,10 @@ def main():
     if args.grep:
         files = filter_grep(files, args.grep)
 
+    if args.exclude_grep:
+        excluded = set(filter_grep(files, args.exclude_grep))
+        files = [f for f in files if f not in excluded]
+
     files.sort()
 
     if args.split_num: