like a fart in a frying pan

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

sexually attracted to frying pans

The act of being sexually attracted to a frying pan.

1: I'm pansexual
2: Are you sexually attracted to frying pans or something?

by hfusicengf uoyerwaq f October 31, 2017

out of the frying pan and into the fire

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.

by Van Pierce March 6, 2004

out of the frying pan and into the fire

going from bad to worse

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

out of the frying pan and into the fire

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 9, 2004

out of the frying pan and into the fire

from one bad situation to an evern worse one

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 29, 2007

out of the frying pan and into the fire

Getting yourself out of a bad in situation into an even worse one.

Bob's out of the frying pan and into the fire after robbing the bank while videotaping it!

by Lews Therin March 7, 2004