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neither here nor there

Idioms  
  1. Unimportant, irrelevant, as in You pay for the movie and I'll get the dinner check, or vice versa—it's neither here nor there. This expression was first recorded in 1583. Also see beside the point.


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But that Musk is just another layer of fraud is neither here nor there.

From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2025

He found ways of presenting human bodies in his videos that were utterly lifelike but in a kind of suspended state of neither here nor there.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2024

Yes I did, but that’s neither here nor there.

From Slate ● Nov. 10, 2023

Playing the game in front of 50,000 of their own - and none of Celtic's - was neither here nor there.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2023

But all that was neither here nor there.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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