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
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
But in any case all that is beside the question: I once thought that it would be a generous revenge to make him suffer; now I am conscious how idle the thought was.
From Spiritual Adventures by Symons, Arthur
Whether that was the sole reason for its being is beside the question; but probably it was not.
From Concerning Sally by Hopkins, William John
