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词汇 out-of-the-frying-pan-into-the-fire
释义

out of the frying pan into the fire


idiom saying
said when you move from a bad or difficult situation to one that is worse跳出油锅又入火坑;才出龙潭又入虎穴
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out of the frying pan into the fire | American Dictionary


out of the frying pan into the fire


idiom
from a bad or difficult situation to one that is even worse:
Many kids who try to run away from unhappy homes discover that they've jumped out of the frying pan into the fire when they try to live on their own.

Examples of out of the frying pan into the fire


out of the frying pan into the fire
By the mid-1980s it had become clear that a completely unexpected case of 'outofthefryingpanintothefire' had emerged.
To rush into such a tax would be to go outofthefryingpanintothefire.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
That is only jumping outofthefryingpanintothefire.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
Great changes cannot be made in a minute, and we do not want to jump outofthefryingpanintothefire.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
It would be a move outofthefryingpanintothefire, and rather like moving from museum charges to library charges.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
We are jumping outofthefryingpanintothefire.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
This would simply mean jumping outofthefryingpanintothefire.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
I want him to look into that wording, because it is of no use jumping outofthefryingpanintothefire.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
However, we would soon be outofthefryingpanintothefire if we did that.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
It is not jumping outofthefryingpanintothefire, scarcely coherent, to give aid with one hand and penalise with the other.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Perhaps miners will find that they have gone outofthefryingpanintothefire.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
For us it would seem a case of jumping outofthefryingpanintothefire.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
Adopting the council tax is jumping outofthefryingpanintothefire.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
That will be a case of outofthefryingpanintothefire.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
To go from museum charges to library charges would be to go outofthefryingpanintothefire.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
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