Frying-panOut of the frying-pan into the fire. In trying to extricate yourself from one evil, you fell into a greater. The Greeks used to say, “Out of the smoke into the flame;” and the French say, “Tombre de la poële dans la braise.” Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Frying-pan from Infoplease:
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