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bigger fish to fry

noun

Etymology

An augmentative of other fish to fry.

Definitions

  1. A much more pressing issue to attend to.

    • Someone else needs to figure out the menu for the going-away party. I have bigger fish to fry.
    • Clyde’d been right about one thing—she had bigger fish to fry, and that included figuring out what Lucifer’s next move was.
    • Thanks for the vegan idioms, Peta, but there are bigger fish to fry [title] Trying to enforce non-meaty alternatives to phrases like ‘bring home the bacon’ will only harm the veganism cause[.]

  2. A higher-valued result or target to reach.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bigger fish to fry. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA