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beside the point

a. (context idiomatic English) irrelevant, moot. adv. (context idiomatic English) irrelevantly, off-topic.

Usage examples of "beside the point".

These aesthetic gaffes give one an almost uncontrollable urge to make fun of Microsoft, but again, it is all beside the point--if Microsoft had done focus group testing of possible alternative graphics, they probably would have found that the average mid-level office worker associated fountain pens with effete upper management toffs and was more comfortable with ballpoints.

The fact that the citations were all written by commanders with whom the sergeant major had a close and warm relationship was beside the point: it had to be your commander who made the commendation and McCarmen always interacted well with his officers.

The fact that she was for all practical purposes a neophyte was beside the point.

It always made her feel sick, and it seemed somehow beside the point.

The fact that he had risen on the seafoam three days later, like Venus or Christ, was beside the point and out of the history books altogether.

How many others there are, I'm sure I don't know, but that's beside the point.

Once she had given in to panic for a moment, true, but that was beside the point.