by hfusicengf uoyerwaq f October 31, 2017
If you've escaped a bad situation, only to land in a worse one-- this applies. Like moving from Pittsburgh to Statesboro.
Well, gramma says you can stop cleaning up the insulin needles now and help pull up her girdle.
*sigh* this is flight 1006 originating in the frying pan, requesting an ETA on the fire.
*sigh* this is flight 1006 originating in the frying pan, requesting an ETA on the fire.
by Van Pierce March 6, 2004
I wouldn't have thought Dubya's foreign policy could get much worse but with the removal of a democratically elected leader* in Haiti it seems to have gone out of the frying pan and into the fire.
by bob March 7, 2004
A Southernism that means that you have taken yourself out of a bad situation into a situation that is worse or no better than the one you were previously in.
Betty Sue sure did jump from the frying pan to the fire when she left Roy, her cheatin' husband for his brother Chet, the town drunk.
by cass March 10, 2004
Last winter, the the country came out of the frying pan and into the fire as far as weather is concerned.
by The Return of Light Joker October 14, 2007
Bob's out of the frying pan and into the fire after robbing the bank while videotaping it!
by Lews Therin March 7, 2004