out of the frying pan and into the fire
going from one bad situation into a worse one. also used to define a choice as being less than optimal.
boss: “if you don’t want to work late tonight, you can always come in this weekend.”
if you’ve escaped a bad situation, only to land in a worse one– this applies. like moving from pittsburgh to statesboro.
well, gramma says you can stop cleaning up the insulin needles now and help pull up her girdle.
-sigh- this is flight 1006 originating in the frying pan, requesting an eta on the fire.
going from bad to worse
i wouldn’t have thought dubya’s foreign policy could get much worse but with the removal of a democratically elected leader- in haiti it seems to have gone out of the frying pan and into the fire.
from one bad situation to an evern worse one
last winter, the the country came out of the frying pan and into the fire as far as weather is concerned.
a southernism that means that you have taken yourself out of a bad situation into a situation that is worse or no better than the one you were previously in.
betty sue sure did jump from the frying pan to the fire when she left roy, her cheatin’ husband for his brother chet, the town drunk.
getting yourself out of a bad in situation into an even worse one.
bob’s out of the frying pan and into the fire after robbing the bank while videotaping it!
from bad problems to worst problems
it got worst that he landed jail time after his friends sold him that sh-t for too much money. dude jumped out of the frying pan and into the fire.
Read Also:
- Ol Bin ladenn laden
when you blow a huge load of s-m-n into a girl’s eye, giving her a black eye. oh, i gave her the ol bin laden last night!
- scrappy
a person who is little but can really kick some -ss. that crazy little white dude is really scr-ppy so watch yo back. seemingly small and unthreatening but shockingly able to kick your -ss and anyone else’s look at that scr-ppy lil dude over there. he just beat the cr-p out of those punks. someone […]
- Old Wizard
a list website made up of biased -ssholes. claim that the sega genesis was the worst console of all time, think that bob dylan has the worst lyrics ever and think that oasis is the 2nd coming of jesus. person 1: hey have you ever been to old wizard? those guys are so smart. person […]
- screen peeker
term used in any multiplayer fps in which the screen is divided into “sections”, each section being a viewpoint for each player. a screen peeker is one who looks at another player’s section in order to find out the approximate location of said player, as well as to make sure no one is following them […]
- scutlly
to be of annoyance; of disgust; sc-m her voice, her house,and her eyes are all scutlly.