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The phrase out of the frying pan into the fire[1][2][3][4] is used to describe the situation of moving or getting from a bad or difficult situation to a worse one, often as the result of trying to escape from the bad or difficult one.[5] It was the subject of a 15th-century fable that eventually entered the Aesopic canon.

  1. ^ "Out of the frying pan into the fire". Campbridge Dictionary. Archived from the original on 2018-09-18. Retrieved 2020-09-23.
  2. ^ "Out of the frying pan into the fire". TheFreeDictionary.com. 2015. Archived from the original on 2018-11-05. Retrieved 2020-09-23.
  3. ^ "Frying Pan". Lexico Dictionaries. Archived from the original on September 23, 2020. Retrieved 2020-09-23.
  4. ^ "Frying Pan". Merriam-Webster. 2020-09-21. Archived from the original on 2016-06-21. Retrieved 2020-09-23.
  5. ^ Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Archived 2016-10-28 at the Wayback Machine, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, 1895

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