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Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature | | English term or phrase: had other fish to fry | | Context: He said he could not join to us today; he sounded as he had other fish to fry. |
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| | Hungarian translation:(más) fontosabb tennivalója akadt | Explanation:
Nagyon tetszik e-Musty feltételezése, és biztos van olyan szövegkörnyezet ahova pontosan illik. Az én javaslatom inkább általánosabb jellegű. |
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12 mins confidence:   másvalakit akar fűzni
Explanation:
Ez csak egy tipp, abból kiindulva, hogy itt férfi-női komplikációk vannak, és a fish korábban sem azért került elő, mert a férfinek halsütödéje van. :)
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.
|   Gusztáv Jánvári
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Asker: 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.
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