Once you haven't been to the seminar and then, of all times, the lecturer devotes himself to preparing for the exam. Luckily, a friend of yours was in the class and took notes, which you copied straight away. A major topic that you don't really master is not mentioned - isn't that relevant to the exam? Your fellow student shrugs his shoulders. “He didn't specifically rule it out, but just mentioned it in passing . So I guess we don’t have to learn it.”
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In what context do you use the phrase?
From the context it follows that "among other things" refers to things that are rather secondary, meaningless or uninteresting. They are usually mentioned at the very end and are hardly worth mentioning.
How did the phrase come about?
The phrase originally comes from British horse racing: usually only the first three places were mentioned by name - the slower horses, derogatorily referred to as Moravians, came last. Since there was less interest in these, they just said "also ran...", in German "further ran...".
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