Okay, let's understand another useful idiom 145. To have other fish, to fry, to have other fish to fry, what does it mean? Let's understand it to have something more important to do. So when I say I have other fish to fry means I have something more important to do. Or we can say to have more important or more interesting things to do or to attend to. That's why we say I have other fish to fry.

Okay let's understand it in some examples. I hope the Boss keeps this meeting short. We all have other fish to fry. We have very important things to do. I can't stay here. Wait for the show to start.

Come on. I have other fish to fry. I can't go out with my friends actually. I must say at home. I have other fish to fry