belabour the point BrE
belabor the point AmE

As the above shows, the sketches would often belabour the point somewhat.

There is no need to belabour the point here.

She looked up at me apprehensively and I decided not to belabour the point.

Sorry to belabour the point, but in regard of your reply...

To belabour the point of whether or not he had knocked would only make her sound shrewish, and she didn't want that added to his list of uncomplimentary adjectives, along with brash and brassy!

Quite wisely he chose not to belabour the point that every Thienz cousin within mind-reach would shortly descend upon Sha- dowfane's dungeons, maddened as a stirred swarm of wasps.

'So I'm left with nada and the papers are screaming for a solution, which puts the commissioner to screaming at Captain Finnigan, who - but why belabour the point, right?

To belabour the point further Hortobagyi, using data from the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, reported in May 1995 that patients eligible for high-dose chemotherapy survived 65% longer on conventional chemotherapy than those who would not have been eligible for the protocol.

They would have but I did not belabor the point.

Not to belabor the point, but this thing is big.

But I need not belabor the point, since it must be a familiar one to you.

I do not want to belabor the point, but the place is loaded with fish.

No need to belabor the point, the girl thought.

And there is no need to belabor the point about our respective responsibilities.

"I hardly think this is the place to belabor the point, however.

After hearing us he says: "Let's not belabor the point.

But and I don't want to belabor the point we'd been friends for twenty-three years.

Lama is a lot less, but I won't belabor the point here.

So I'm not going to belabor the point.

But is it necessary that you belabor the point?"

The Giants emphasize and sometimes belabor the point that they do not adhere to a star system.

I don't want to belabor the point, but giving out awards makes the givers feel good.

So much has peen written about this that it seems hardly necessary to belabor the point further.

I could belabor the point, but it isn't worth it.

Centaur archery was legendary; no need to belabor the point.

And I don't want to belabor the point.

I flopped down backwards onto the bed, exhausted and not willing to belabor the point.

But I've become a pro at this, so I won't even belabor the point.

The force that he has pulled together is working outside security and "You don't need to belabor the point," said the President.

That was true enough, but Kate forebore to belabor the point.

We can't sit here and belabor the point.

I addressed this already back on page 1, so I won't belabor the point here.

Fortunately, the guards did not belabor the point.