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Frying-pan

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Out of the frying-pan into the fire. In trying to extricate yourself from one evil, you fell into a greater. The Greeks used to say, “Out of the smoke into the flame;” and the French say, “Tombre de la poële dans la braise.”

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Frontino
Frost
Frost Saints
Froth (Master)
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Frozen Music
Frozen Words
Frumentius (St.)
Fry
Frying-pan
Fub
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Fudge
Fudge Family
Fuel
Fuga ad Salices (A)
Fuggers
Fugleman
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