We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.
It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts.
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.
Naturally, the workers are perfectly free; the manufacturer does not force them to take his materials and his cards, but he says to them..'If you don't like to be frizzled in my frying- pan, you can take a walk into the fire.
Violence stinks no matter which side of it you're on. But now and then there's nothing left to do but hit the other person over the head with a frying pan.
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
You should hit him in the face with frying pans more often," Said Rhys "he seems to like it
Personally, I say, "Out of the frying pan and into the deadly pit filled with sharks who are wielding chainsaws with killer kittens stapled to them." However, that one's having a rough time catching on.