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."

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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.

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