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into the fire

1. A great song by asking alexandria
2. A way of saying into the danger
"Dude have you heard into the fire?"
Or
"Straight into the fire we go!"
by a pointy boi July 3, 2021
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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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Out of the ashes and into the fire

Going from a bad situation to an even worse.
Two friends get captured and tortured by a serial killer, but manage to escape. But instead of having to face one deranged psycho, they're now facing a nest of super-zombies. they've jumped out of the ashes and into the fire.
by iskall January 13, 2009
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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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