(slang) the issue at hand. (There are many variations of this phrase, such as the price of eggs, the price of tea in China, etc.) If it's some departure from what you know to be standard, or it's a suggestion that is over the hills and far away that doesn't have very much to do with the price of fish, or they're demanding that we change processes and run six of them in one session, or there's something peculiar has suddenly been presented to view; we don't bother to find out what's been presented to view.