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fry up

idiom

a breakfast made of tomatoes, scrambled eggs, fried eggs, bacon, sausages, hash browns, baked beans, black pudding, chips, toast and mushrooms (or any combination thereof); full English breakfast


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  1. 01

    bigger fish to fry

    A much more pressing issue to attend to.

  2. 02

    fish to fry

    A matter to attend to.

  3. 03

    have other fish to fry

    To have more important things to do.

  4. 04

    small fry

    One or more relatively small and insignificant individuals or things of relatively little consequence, importance, or value.

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