OTHER FISH TO FRY Definition & Meaning

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Idioms and Phrases

Also, better or bigger fish to fry . More important matters to attend to, as in They asked me to help with the decorations, but I have other fish to fry . [Mid-1500s]

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"If anyone had a right to feel maybe insulted or upset, I think it might be me, but it doesn't worry me because we have got other fish to fry."

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I said, “Oh! It’s silly to try this. I have other fish to fry.”

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“We have so many other fish to fry,” said Robin Raphel, a former assistant secretary of state for South Asia who is a senior associate with the Center for Strategic and International Studies think-tank.

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"We have so many other fish to fry," said Robin Raphel, a former assistant secretary of State for South Asia who is a senior associate with the Center for Strategic and International Studies think-tank.

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“Here we are in a situation we have not been thinking about because we had other fish to fry,” she said.

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