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Fraying out

When you dump the person youre dating just because things getting too emotional and you cant bother to deal with emotions.
A:She acting moody again. Going tell her its over.
B:just calm down and work with her.
A:she said I love you. Im not saying it back.
B:youre just fraying out again
by Giglipuff September 4, 2016
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Frying Out

When someone constantly forgets where they put something, yet it is in the immediate vicinity.
Hillary-"Where is my calculator?"
-"I don't know."
Hillary-"Are you sure?"
-"Yes."
Hillary-"Oh nevermind, its been on my lap this whole time."
-"Stop frying out Hillary."
by bivo October 19, 2011
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Going from one bad situation into a worse one. Also used to define a choice as being less than optimal.
Boss: "If you don't want to work late tonight, you can always come in this weekend."
by dvsjr March 8, 2004
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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
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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
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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
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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
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