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Brewer's: Irrelevant
is not to relieve, not to lighten. Irrelevant matter is that which does not help to bear the burden or make it lighter; something not pertinent or not material to the point in question. (Latin levis, light.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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