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
Accidentally of course a poet’s work may tend towards some moral or actual result; that is beside the question.
From William Blake A Critical Essay by Algernon Charles Swinburne
I will not attempt to follow all the statements of L. M., because some of them are totally beside the question, and others contradict each other.
God knows I have my own battle to fight, my own self to overcome, but that is beside the question.
From Ringfield A Novel by S. Frances (Susie Frances) Harrison
