Careful Words

fry (n.)

fry (v.)

  I would have you call to mind the strength of the ancient giants, that undertook to lay the high mountain Pelion on the top of Ossa, and set among those the shady Olympus.

Martin Luther (1483-1546): Works. Book iv. Chap. xxxviii.

  I have other fish to fry.

Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616): Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxv.