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.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
Get the out of the frying pan and into the fire mug.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
Get the out of the frying pan and into the fire mug.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
Get the out of the frying pan and into the fire mug.Last winter, the the country came out of the frying pan and into the fire as far as weather is concerned.
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Get the out of the frying pan and into the fire mug.by Lews Therin March 7, 2004
Get the out of the frying pan and into the fire mug.It got worst that he landed jail time after his friends sold him that shit for too much money. Dude jumped out of the frying pan and into the fire.
by Jerlyn March 7, 2004
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