What is the idiom for from the frying pan to the oven?

Answer 1

In other words, in an effort to get ourselves out of a negative situation, we often put ourselves in a worst situation. This is one reason why we need to use good critical thinking skills before we make a final decision.

Answer 2

It means to leave one bad situation and get into a worse one. Sometimes people work so hard to get out of one situation that they end up in a worse one. So people say "be careful not to jump out of the fireplace into the fire" to encourage them to plan ahead and make sure they don't give up something bad for something much worse.

In a folktale, a fish was caught and put into a pan. He struggled to escape and just ended up in the fire. You can say this when you try to get out of one thing only to land in another situation which is even worse.

Means to leave a bad situation, only to find yourself in a worse one. Thought to originally be Italian - the 14th century work the Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio contains the first recorded use of the phrase in the form "noi abbiamo costui tratto della padella e gittatolo nel fuoco"; literally, "we have only taken him out of the frying-pan to toss him into the fire"

It means going from a bad situation to an even worse one. Like when somebody breaks into your house, then sues you because he landed on a knife when he came in through the kitchen window. Or when you find out that your wife has been cheating on you, then 2 weeks later you find out it was with all 4 of your brothers.

In other words, in an effort to get ourselves out of a negative situation, we often put ourselves in a worst situation. This is one reason why we need to use good critical thinking skills before we make a final decision.

One example of this would be a woman who was married to a good man, but divorced him because his job didn't pay enough money to suit her, but he wouldn't get a better paying job because he really liked the one he had. She then later ended up married to another man who refused to even work at all. So her greed and selfishness took her from the frying pan and into the fire.

Another example would be skipping class one day because you knew it was exam day and you hadn't prepared for it well enough to make a high grade. So you thought you could just take a make up exam later, only to learn there are no make up exams allowed, so you got a failing grade in the class. Making an average or even low grade would have been much better than the failing grade, but your lack of willing to take the exam caused you to go from the frying pan and into the fire.

Answer 3

The phrase just means you are taking a bad situation and making it worse. There is no fire in a skillet, just heat, but under the skillet, there is both heat and fire. So if heat alone is bad enough, being directly in the fire is even worse.

Answer 4

It is believed to be derived from England in the 1500s. A piece of food being fried in a pan is hot enough, but falling out of the frying pan and into the fire is even worsse.
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Answer 5

I think you mean "out of the frying pan into the fire," which is an idiom meaning that you have escaped one problem only to land in a larger one.