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beside the point
vs
small-bore
beside the point
adj
Irrelevant, moot.
adv
Irrelevantly, off-topic.
small-bore
adj
insignificant or trivial.
Having a small caliber.
How often have the words
beside the point
and
small-bore
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
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