beside the question
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Whether Lebanon is beyond repair is beside the question; I don’t think we’ve seen the worst of it just yet.
From Washington Post • Dec. 29, 2020
No one is to speak impertinently or beside the question, superfluously or tediously.
From Slate • Jan. 6, 2011
If you will excuse me, is not that beside the question?
From Thurston of Orchard Valley by Dunton, W. Herbert
I never read biographical "stuff" of other writers—of course you know "stuff" is literary slang for "matter"—and think it "beside the question."
From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Bierce, Ambrose
The isle was too small for either Takaroa: in all our neighbourhood, indeed, there was none so inconsiderable, save only Tikei; and Tikei, one of Roggewein’s so-called Pernicious Islands, seemed beside the question.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
