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beside the point |
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beside the point and beside the question irrelevant; of no importance. That's very interesting, but beside the point. That's beside the point. You're evading the issue. beside the point not important I can't think of anything that he and I agree on, but that's beside the point. Opposite of: to the point How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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It seemed to me that the question was beside the point. Well, I tell you what," he went on, flying off again to a subject quite beside the point, "our district self-government and all the rest of it--it's just like the birch branches we stick in the ground on Trinity Day, for instance, to look like a copse which has grown up of itself in Europe, and I can't gush over these birch branches and believe in them. The days were completely wasted upon trifling, immaterial things, for after three weeks of such intimacy and intensity all the usual occupations were unbearably flat and beside the point. |
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