pointnoun(IDEA EXPRESSED)

beside the point | American Dictionary

beside the point

idiom
not important:
The exact cost is beside the point – what’s important is that we get the job done.

Examples of beside the point

beside the point
All talk about "internal representations" and internal or external difference registration or detection, and so on, is besidethepoint.
The author of the ransom note blaming park workers for the theft was never found and is besidethepoint.
How he feels about this custom and whether he participates in these displays is besidethepoint.
That the resulting improvised 'lecture' may not always withstand in every detail a critical post-mortem is perhaps besidethepoint.
This is wrong but also besidethepoint.
In such cases, any talk about safeguarding their rights is usually besidethepoint.
Besidethepoint because in the appeal quoted above, facts are made secondary to belief, and belief is a place beyond doubt itself.
Questions concerning the reasons and purposes of the technological environment are besidethepoint.
But on the view under consideration here, this is besidethepoint.
Again, the historicity of these comments is besidethepoint.
From the narrator's perspective, either the notification of a mournful event or a detailed description of the nobleman's death are besidethepoint.
While the sincerity of the individual platform writers cannot be assessed, that is arguably besidethepoint.
We accept this assertion, but it is besidethepoint.
Further, appeals to the effects of the global basic structure are besidethepoint here.
But this control lacks both an agent and a verb, and seems to be besidethepoint.
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