How would you explain the phrase "from the frying pan, into the fire"?
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Sheriff Raff -Answerhag
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From bad to worst?
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From trouble to crisis.
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i think it means someone goes from a mildly scary/difficult situation into an extremely scary/difficult one. (and, perhaps they aren't ready?)
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I have always thought it was closely parallel to the expression "the devil you know is better than the devil you don't know". Of course that doesn't do much to give the gravity of the personal circumstances involved.
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I would say, Taking a Bad situation and Making it worse! Like Marrying my husband!
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Jumping from a bad situation into a worse one.
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