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
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
That the exigencies of modern theatrical management impose these conditions is beside the question.
From Shakespeare in the Theatre by Poel, William
