neither here nor there
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 poi
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Disproof of a proposition by showing that it leads to absurd or untenable conclusions. [Medieval Latin reductiō ad absurdum : Latin reductiō, a bringing back, reduction + Latin ad, to + Latin absurdum, absurdity, from neuter of absurdus, absurd.]
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