Our recent attempts to improve our sales figures in Eastern Europe have been unsuccessful. We need to have a meeting to discuss a new sales strategy – after all, there’s more than one way to skin a cat (es führen viele Wege zum Ziel.)
This is the more modern American equivalent of the old British idiom „more than one way to kill a cat“. Why exactly cat murder is used to represent a method for dealing with a situation is not so clear.