beside the point vs brassy

beside the point

adj

  • Irrelevant, moot. 

adv

  • Irrelevantly, off-topic. 

brassy

adj

  • Unfeeling; pitiless. 

  • Impudent; impudently bold. 

  • Harsh in tone. 

  • Resembling brass. 

noun

  • Kyphosus vaigiensis, a fish found in southeast Asia. 

How often have the words beside the point and brassy occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )