| 单词 | out of the frying pan into the fire |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(to jump, leap, etc.) out of the frying pan into the fire (to jump, leap, etc.) out of the frying pan into the fire: to escape from one evil only to fall into a greater one; cf. out of the pan into the fire at pan n.1 Phrases 2. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > there is danger in a course of action [phrase] > out of a small danger into a great one (to jump, leap, etc.) out of the frying pan into the fire1532 out of the smoke into the fire1547 out of the pan into the firea1599 1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 488/2 [He] featly conuayed himself out of the frying panne fayre into the fyre. 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. v. sig. Hiv Leape out of the frying pan into the fyre. And change from yl pein to wurs. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage i. vi. 32 Like..the foolish fish that leapeth out of the frying pan into the fire. 1705 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft 25 Priestcraft got the Ascendant at Rome, and then Men were—out of the Frying-Pan into the Fire. 1890 Guardian 1 Oct. 1507/3 If they thought they could get away from the State by disestablishment, they would find that they were jumping out of the frying-pan into the fire. < as lemmas |
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