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
However, happily that is beside the question in your daughter's case.
From The Lost Heir by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
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 Arthur Symons
Though, there again, that all comes of letting a trade work mysteriously under the thumb of a benighted oligarchy . . which is beside the question.
From Three Plays by Granville-Barker The Marrying of Ann Leete; The Voysey Inheritance; Waste by Harley Granville-Barker
