Out of the frying pan into the fire. John Heywood The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)
out of the frying pan and into the fire
If you record the sound of bacon in a frying pan and play it back, it sounds like the pops and cracks on an old 33 1/3 recording. Almost exactly like that. You could substitute it for that sound.
The effort only shifted me from the frying-pan into the fire.
When frying small fish, disturb them little.
We are praying now for the repose of his soul. Hoping you're well and not in hell. Nice change of air. Out of the frying pan of life into the fire of purgatory.
People would come in with frying pans, big axes, and they'd build fires and they'd have cans of stuff and they'd throw their cans down and hike on ... and we don't see that anymore.
She's the only museum curator I know who can take a beer-can opener and a frying pan and make a marvelous exhibition out of it.
We go from the frying pan right into the fire. It doesn't get easier.