fry
To cook food in hot oil or fat.
To cook food in hot oil or fat, usually in a shallow pan.
To break something with too much heat or electricity.
To destroy or severely damage something using intense heat or an electrical surge.
Very small fish that have just come out of eggs.
Young fish that have recently hatched and are still very small.
To kill a person with an electric chair as punishment by law.
To kill someone using an electric chair as a legal punishment.
- Base: fry
- Plural: fries, fry
- Base: fry
- 3rd Person Singular: fries
- Present Participle: frying
- Past: fried
fry up
1Quickly cook food in oil for a meal
To cook food quickly in hot oil, usually for a quick meal.
- I'll just fry up some bacon for breakfast.
- She fried up the leftovers for lunch.
have bigger fish to fry
1Have more important matters to handle
To have something more important to do than what you are talking about now.
- I can't worry about that now—I have bigger fish to fry.
- She didn't join the meeting because she had bigger fish to fry.
in the frying pan into the fire
1Go from bad to worse situation
To leave a bad situation and end up in an even worse one.
- By quitting his job without another offer, he went out of the frying pan into the fire.
- Trying to fix the problem without help might put you out of the frying pan into the fire.
small fry
1Unimportant people or things
People or things that are not important compared to others.
- Compared to the big companies, we're just small fry.
- Don't worry about them—they're small fry in this business.