beside\ the\ question

beside\ the\ question
• beside the point
• beside the question
adj or adv. phr.
Off the subject; about something different.

What you meant to do is beside the point; the fact is you didn't do it.

The judge told the witness that his remarks were beside the point.

Compare: beat around the bush, neither here nor there

Словарь американских идиом. — СПб., Изд-во "Лань". . 1997.

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