French idioms
What does “Avoir d'autres chats à fouetter” mean?
Avoir d'autres chats à fouetter
Word for word
To have other cats to whip
What it really means
To have more important things to deal with. It serves to brush a subject aside without much ceremony.
How we say it in English
To have bigger fish to fry
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