beside the question
Example Sentences
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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
I did not doubt the truth of the Christian religion; I neither affirmed nor denied; it was something, to me, beside the question.
From Spiritual Adventures by Symons, Arthur
These platitudes are not by any means beside the question, although you don't understand them.'
From A Practical Novelist by Davidson, John
Yet either of these views, however plausible, is beside the question; either may be right; and I care not; I ask a more particular answer, and to a more immediate point.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
