beside the point vs paltry

beside the point

adj
  • Irrelevant, moot. 

adv
  • Irrelevantly, off-topic. 

paltry

adj
  • Trashy, trivial, of little value. 

  • Of little monetary worth. 

  • Despicable; contemptibly unimportant. 

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