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
The best in the Blues, sir; but this is beside the question.
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Lever, Charles James
The fact that neither need fear a trial of strength with any other Power or any union of Powers, is beside the question.
From The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Robinson, Harry Perry
That the mediator should be God is totally beside the question, and in no way strengthens our adversaries' hands.
From My Path to Atheism by Besant, Annie Wood
