English term
had other fish to fry
Non-PRO (1): Attila Piróth
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Proposed translations
(más) fontosabb tennivalója akadt
United Kingdom
Literary translator
Native in: Hungarian
Works in: English to Hungarian, Hungarian to English
más dolga van/máson jár az esze
Hungary
sit back. we'll do it.
Native in: Hungarian
Works in: English to Hungarian, Hungarian to English
másvalakit akar fűzni
Intuícióim alapján arról van szó, hogy a fickó lemondta a partizást a csajokkal munkára hivatkozva, de a csaj él a gyanúval, hogy a pasi másik nővel akar hetyegni, aki a fish, a megfűzés pedig a frying. Conspiration theory to the max. :)
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Note added at 57 perc (2007-11-18 11:07:35 GMT)
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It depends on. If your text is about women and men and about the men trying to get the women, the example in the dictionary makes not much sense here. As this is literature, you may have to be flexible in trying to find the right phrases. When you write that he has other useful things to do, you cannot emphasize the contradiction in the original sentence 'cuse it's not a contradiction to say I couldn' join you and you suspect I have something more important to do—this is normal. Here the woman suspects something, maybe that the man wants to date with another girl.
| Az angol -angol szotaromba eszt irja: had other fish to fry- have more important, interesting or useful things to do; tehat ez a forditas hogy" masvalakit akar fuzni" nem tudom hogy ha megfelel. |
Correct translation of technical papers
Native in: Hungarian 
Works in: German to Hungarian, English to Hungarian, Hungarian to German
más nyársat forgat a tűzben
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