fish to fry
Example Sentences
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At this point, the Cougars have bigger, more financially dire fish to fry.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 5, 2023
This three-sistered orchard setting deliberately calls Anton Chekhov to mind, but Patchett’s bigger literary fish to fry is the text she calls her foundation, Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 27, 2023
His science minister, Michelle Donelan, said there were "bigger fish to fry", when asked if she would have a problem with a knighthood for Johnson's father.
From Reuters • Mar. 6, 2023
"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."
From BBC • Nov. 23, 2022
“The army has bigger fish to fry than you and your sister.”
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
