beside the point
beside the point
phrase
pointIf you say that something is beside the point, you mean that it is not relevant to the subject that you are discussing.
Brian didn't like it, but that was beside the point.
irrelevant, inappropriate, pointless, peripheral, unimportant, incidental, unconnected, immaterial, inconsequential, nothing to do with it, extraneous, neither here nor there, off the subject, inapplicable, not to the point, inapposite, without connection, inconsequent, not pertinent, not germane, not to the purposeCOBUILD Advanced English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers
