to go from a bad to worse situation
used to refer when a bad situation turned critical
moving from a very difficult position to one that is considered much worse
In a bid to gain independence, she agreed to get married early, not knowing she was jumping out of the frying pan into the fire.
Moving from my old school to this one is like jumping out of the frying pan into the fire.
I wanted to fix the leakage but being so old the pipe was straight out of the frying pan and into the fire.
Liza started shouting at me in public when I went to apologize. I was like out of the frying pan into the fire.
There is no origin for this idiom
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