moot point

Idioms  

1. A debatable question, an issue open to argument; also, an irrelevant question, a matter of no importance. For example, Whether Shakespeare actually wrote the poem remains a moot point among critics, or It's a moot point whether the chicken or the egg came first. This term originated in British law where it described a point for discussion in a moot, or assembly, of law students. By the early 1700s it was being used more loosely in the present sense.

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Example Sentences

More displays like this may make that contract end date a moot point.

From BBC

One thing is clear: It’s a moot point for survivors of the Eaton and Palisades fire.

From Los Angeles Times

All this may be a moot point after Nvidia day on Wednesday.

From Barron's

A moot point, like so many in this tortuous saga.

From BBC

The next step is for the country’s High Constitutional Court to approve the vote, but the military’s move may have made it a moot point.

From The Wall Street Journal