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to the point

  1. Relevant, concerning the matter at hand, as in Her remarks were brief and to the point , or He rambled on and on, never speaking to the point . [Early 1800s] For an antonym, see beside the point .

  2. Concerning the important or essential issue, as in More to the point, she hasn't any money . This usage is often put as , meaning “address the important issue.” For example, Please come to the point; we haven't much time , or Do you suppose he'll ever get to the point of all this? [Late 1300s]



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"I'm getting to the point where I just want people to know that there's more than just that song," he told Rolling Stone earlier this year.

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The so-called invading force of my generation assimilated to the point where our kids are named Brandon and Ashley in all sorts of spellings.

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He had pushed himself to the point of a nervous breakdown by the constant traveling and his need to write and produce new material.

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"Solar Orbiter will enable us to get to the bottom of some of the basic science of space weather. But a little more work needs to be done before we get to the point where we see signals on the Sun that we can rely on to predict eruptions that might hit the Earth".

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“I was sleeping in laundromats, and I was depressed, I think to the point of almost being psychotic. So I figured, ‘That’s it.

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