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
It is beside the question to say that the United States need have no fear of the result: indeed that very fact contributes largely to the danger.
From The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Robinson, Harry Perry
"In any case it is beside the question," she declared, anxious to get the conversation away from herself.
From The Rhodesian by Page, Gertrude
