Out of the frying pan and into the fire describes a situation in which one escapes a bad situation, only to become enmeshed in an even worse situation. For instance, if one quits a stressful job to take another one that ends up being even more stressful, one may have jumped out of the frying pan and into the fire. The sentiment the phrase portrays goes back to ancient times.
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- We cannot imagine that it can get any worse. But then it does. We have an expression for just that situation – out of the frying pan and into the fire.
- But as it turned out, I'd gone out of the frying pan into the fire. Having finally left one bad relationship, she jumped from the frying pan into the fire.
- The phrase “out of the frying pan and into the fire” is sometimes taken incorrectly to mean that you leave the frying pan to enter the fire.
- Example Sentences. In a bid to gain independence, she agreed to get married early, not knowing she was jumping out of the frying pan into the fire.
- If you're in a pool of water with a bunch of jellyfish, and in the act of climbing out you fall into a different pool with a bunch of sharks, that's Out Of The Frying Pan.
- If you get out of one problem, but find yourself in a worse situation, you are out of the frying pan, into the fire.
- Out of the frying pan, into the fire is a phrase that means to go from a bad situation to a situation that is even worse.
- Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire is a short treasure hunt avaiable north of Reardon manor.
- Out of the Frying-Pan into the Fire is the 6th chapter of The Hobbit. Synopsis. Bilbo had escaped from the goblins[1] and had come out on the east-side of the...