Usually means: From bad situation to worse.
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We found 8 dictionaries that define the word Out of the frying pan into the fire:

General (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. out of the frying pan into the fire: Merriam-Webster
  2. out of the frying pan into the fire: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. out of the frying pan into the fire: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Out of the frying pan into the fire: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. Out of the frying pan, into the fire, out of the frying pan into the fire: Dictionary.com
  6. Out of the frying pan into the fire: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. out of the frying pan into the fire, Out of the frying pan into the fire: Idioms

Definitions from Wikipedia (Out of the frying pan into the fire)

noun:  The phrase out of the frying pan into the fire is used to describe the situation of moving or getting from a bad or difficult situation to a worse one, often as the result of trying to escape from the bad or difficult one.


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