词汇 | other fish to fry |
词源 | other fish to fry. To have other, often more important, things to do. A variation is to have bigger fish to fry. The first recorded use of the expression is in British author John Evelyn’s Memoirs (1660): “I fear he hath other fish to fry.” |
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