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
"All this is quite beside the question," I concluded.
From The Mistress of Bonaventure by Bindloss, Harold
That the exigencies of modern theatrical management impose these conditions is beside the question.
From Shakespeare in the Theatre by Poel, William
But in any case all that is beside the question: I once thought that it would be a generous revenge to make him suffer; now I am conscious how idle the thought was.
From Spiritual Adventures by Symons, Arthur