Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “beside the point“ and it is a phrase meaning “irrelevant, immaterial, unimportant, not pertinent, not germane, off the subject, inapposite, pointless, unconnected”.
Example Sentence: Any independent economist could have pointed out to the government that in an economy where a large section of the population has little income to save, cash is likely to stay as a medium of exchange for some time. After all, electronic payments other than those based on credit cards draw upon (rely on/utilize) prior savings. All this is besides the point, however, and misses how disingenuous the official narrative was. If the idea was to make the population use less cash, there was no need for the secrecy implicit in the hurried announcement of demonetisation.
This phrase is present in The Hindu article The debacle of demonetisation and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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