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 perfectly just, but it is also altogether beside the question.
From Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications by Thornton, William Thomas
The suffragettes are attacked for methods—" "Do you mean to say you approve of their slashing pictures—" "That is beside the question.
From H. R. by Lefevre, Edwin
"All this is quite beside the question," I concluded.
From The Mistress of Bonaventure by Bindloss, Harold
