| 单词 | out of the pan into the fire |
| 释义 | > as lemmasout of the pan into the fire P2. out of the pan into the fire: escaping one misfortune only to encounter an even greater one.Now predominantly with frying pan: see frying pan n. Phrases. 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 a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 80 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) This..were but to leap out of the pan into the fire. a1644 F. Quarles Solomons Recantation (1645) ii. 60 Those Bellowes mount the blaze the higher, Thou leap'st but from the Pan into the fire. 1656 J. Harrington Common-wealth of Oceana 268 To behold a people casting themselves out of the pan of one prince, into the fire of another. 1772 D. Garrick Irish Widow ii. 43 Out of the pan into the fire! there's no putting him off. 1845 D. Trumbull Death Capt. Nathan Hale ii. i. 9 You know that to jump out of the pan into the fire, is a very poor trick. 2003 Scunthorpe Evening Tel. (Nexis) 11 Aug. 12 That we throw in our economic lot with a Federal Europe can only mean, I believe, we jump out of the pan into the fire. < as lemmas |
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