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miss the point

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miss the point

to fail to understand the important part of something. I'm afraid you missed the point. Let me explain it again. You keep explaining, and I keep missing the point.

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miss the point

to fail to understand what is important about something In case anyone missed the point of its weapons tests, the military practiced an island invasion the next month.

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miss the point

to fail to understand what is important about something I think you've missed the point. It's not the money that's the problem, it's the fact that she's not consulting him when she spends it.

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miss the point

Overlook or fail to understand the essential or important part of something, as in Chris missed the point of Gwen's complaint, thinking she was opposed to the date of the next meeting . This expression employs point in the sense of "the salient portion," a usage dating from the late 1300s.

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