单词 | side issue |
释义 | side issuen. A subject, problem, etc., that is related to but less important than the main issue; a secondary, tangential, or incidental issue. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > putting forward for discussion > [noun] > subsidiary side issue1838 sidebar1933 1838 Brit. Mag. Apr. 456 But it is not my wish to run astray on side issues. 1873 M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma Pref. p. xxii To judge the creed by that method was a side issue. 1938 W. S. Maugham Summing Up 232 One of the reasons why current criticism is so useless is that it is done as a side-issue by creative writers. 1982 F. Davies Death of Hit-man ix. 151 Zio must be here for something far more important. Not just to kill Denton. That must have been a side-issue. 2014 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 2 Nov. The corruption isn't just a side issue, it's at the heart of the whole enterprise. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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