Did you mean: " to go out of the frying pan and into the fire"?
It means to make matters worse, to worsen the situation that's already pretty bad.
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#1 07-Mar-2008, 21:19
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Wath is the meaning of:feel from frying pan to fire
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#2 07-Mar-2008, 21:45Re: Idiom
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#3 07-Mar-2008, 23:21Re: Idiom
there is also to jump out of the frying pan into the fire: to exchange a bad situation for one that is even worse.
Originally Posted by besthost
OR it is a case of out of the frying pan into the fire.
