There’s ‘fish to fry!’ That idiom came to me a few minutes past five in the morning.
So I kept repeating the words to myself, and I reached for my phone, so I could type them in my Notes app, if I happened to doze off and, perhaps, fail to remember that particular idiom.
We have fish to fry, in our California community of some 6,000 folks, involving currently active – and proposed – property development projects that could change things, here. Maybe that’s why the idiom surfaced in my subconscious mind. Or maybe I was thinking about Pagosa Springs having some fish to fry, involving concerns about your growing number of vacation rentals, and your growing shortage of affordable housing.
Out here in our community, we’ve been thinking we’re all built out, since there’s little – if any – land left to be developed. But developers, apparently, have other ideas. Like, for example, expanding existing office buildings outward, and upward.
We have a pretty well-balanced mix of residential and business areas. But that could change if outward property development erases open spaces around office buildings, and upward development citifies our community.
So, just like that, things can change, and you discover how fragile a community’s character can be.
But, perhaps, on a slightly lighter side – if there is one – of a far different and far more concerning situation, the current events in Afghanistan, the Taliban tried out some PR, during a press conference, with one of the messages suggesting that “Afghanistan is no longer a battlefield of conflict,” according to an article in USA Today. And that the Taliban is “committed to the rights of women under the system of sharia (Islamic) law,” but women “would work and study ‘within our (the Taliban’s) frameworks,’” and that women would be “working shoulder to shoulder” with the Taliban.
That’s PR, in that messaging.
And a number of news media reported former President Trump praising the Taliban as “good fighters,” which brings to mind another fish idiom; the one about something being ‘a real kettle of fish.’