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What does “Avoir d'autres chats à fouetter” mean?

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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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