Idiom
price of eggs
Meaning
Something that is relevant or important, usually used to emphasize that another, compared thing is irrelevant, unimportant, or non sequitur.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“That has nothing to do with the price of eggs.”
“I asked about the project deadline, but he started talking about the weather, which has nothing to do with the price of eggs.”
“While the committee debated the budget, he introduced a trivial anecdote that had absolutely nothing to do with the price of eggs.”
Examples
simple
“That has nothing to do with the price of eggs.”
contextual
“I asked about the project deadline, but he started talking about the weather, which has nothing to do with the price of eggs.”
complex
“While the committee debated the budget, he introduced a trivial anecdote that had absolutely nothing to do with the price of eggs.”
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