fish to fry

Example Sentences

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"We've got a few other fish to fry before we get there, but I think we've said since we introduced Jacob that he's got a huge future in front of him," McCullum said.

From BBC • Sep. 8, 2025

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

He took it up and looked at it out of curiosity and put it in his pocket to count it while he was out to find some fish to fry.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston