fish fry

Missing is the appetite to Be Somebody that seems to drive so many politicians to the next fish fry.
Run, Jenny, Run!|Kathleen Parker|December 11, 2009|DAILY BEAST
Mammy's done give her fish-fry and ice-cream festible, and she cleahed enough to pay the weddin' expenses.
The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor|Annie Fellows Johnston
Those brigands might justly have been taken for a little party of peaceable rustics assembled for a fish-fry or pecan gathering.
Roads of Destiny|O. Henry
Mr. Thrombley insists that it is necessary for me to go to this fish-fry or whatever it is immediately.
Lone Star Planet|Henry Beam Piper and John Joseph McGuire

"With as good a will as I ever carried to a fish fry," said Billy.
A Man of Honor|George Cary Eggleston
When you empty a barrel of fish fry into a new stream there is a sudden sharpening of their struggle for existence.
The Old World in the New|Edward Alsworth Ross

Origin of fish fry