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out of the frying pan and into the fire
Going from one bad situation into a worse one. Also used to define a choice as being less than optimal.
out of the frying pan and into the fire by dvsjr March 8, 2004
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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.
*sigh* this is flight 1006 originating in the frying pan, requesting an ETA on the fire.
out of the frying pan and into the fire by Van Pierce March 6, 2004
out of the frying pan and into the fire
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.
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.
out of the frying pan and into the fire by cass March 9, 2004
out of the frying pan and into the fire
Last winter, the the country came out of the frying pan and into the fire as far as weather is concerned.
out of the frying pan and into the fire by The Return of Light Joker October 29, 2007
out of the frying pan and into the fire
out of the frying pan and into the fire by Lews Therin March 7, 2004
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