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

"Of course, the Fed now has bigger fish to fry, making next week's decision less dependent on the data and more reliant on how the banking turmoil evolves."

From Reuters • Mar. 15, 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

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