Going from one bad situation into a worse one. Also used to define a choice as being less than optimal.
by dvsjr March 8, 2004
Get the out of the frying pan and into the fire mug.Unpredictable, changeable, indecisive. Rapidly changing one's plans from one option to another, totally unrelated one.
I wish the boss would decide once and for all instead of jumping around like a fart in a frying pan.
by Sauteéd flatus December 20, 2007
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by mechanicalangel November 4, 2011
Get the Frying Pan mug.The desire to cause someone extreme pain and/or suffering. The frying pan reference comes from the Disney movie "Tangled."
Person 1: Man, I just ate that entire dish of brownies on the counter!
Person 2: Dude, I made those for my friend!
Person 1: Sorry, dude.
Person 2: You frustrate me so much, sometimes I just wanna hit you with my coal-hot frying pan!
Person 2: Dude, I made those for my friend!
Person 1: Sorry, dude.
Person 2: You frustrate me so much, sometimes I just wanna hit you with my coal-hot frying pan!
by fandomgirl92 August 7, 2012
Get the wanna hit you with my coal-hot frying pan mug.adj. shit music - the sort of music that you can't understand why millions of people like it when it sounds like it could be made easily in a number of everyday situations (e.g. on the toilet, washing the dishes, gargling toothpaste solution etc.)
a: What did you think of them?
b: Alright
a: What does that mean? Were they "oh my god that was the best shit i've ever heard alright" or "i've heard better music from a sausage frying in a pan but they were alright."
b: Yeah I guess.
a: What? Are you even listening to me?..
b: Alright
a: What does that mean? Were they "oh my god that was the best shit i've ever heard alright" or "i've heard better music from a sausage frying in a pan but they were alright."
b: Yeah I guess.
a: What? Are you even listening to me?..
by brendan July 11, 2004
Get the you'd get better music from a sausage frying in a pan mug.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
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