a bigger fish to fry

When you avoid doing something, cause you have something more important to do.

- "Why she didn't come to class?"
- "Well, she had a bigger fish to fry."

by ari77o May 10, 2010

have bigger fish to fry

To have other things to do, to have more important things to do, to have more interestings things to do.

I can't spend a lot of time on the problem. I have bigger fish to fry.

by therma2000 February 14, 2012