Out of the frying pan into the fire
Out of the frying pan into the fire
said when you move from a bad or difficult situation to one which is worse, worsen, get worse, deteriorate, decline, degenerate, go downhill, make something worse, degrade, downgrade, exacerbate, aggravate:
The Fish and the Frying Pan. Some fish, still alive, were being cooked in hot oil in a frying pan. One of the fish said, “Let’s get out of here, my brothers, in order to save our lives.” Then the fish all leaped out of the frying pan together, and fell into the burning coals. Stricken by even greater pain as a result, they cursed the plan which they had followed, saying, “What a far more horrible death we are facing now!”
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Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire? Unaccompanied Child Asylum Seekers in the United States
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Bosnia has got worse and worse and nobody is worried about it. It is now out of the frying pan into the fire, and it won’t be OK in the end, the British politician and former diplomat, Paddy Ashdown, has warned speaking for the UK media.
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I thought I had escaped, but actually I went out of the frying pan into the fire.
Antonym: improve, ameliorate
French: devenir encore pire qu’avant
Farsi: از چاله بیرون آمدن و به چاه افتادن