frying pan

noun

a shallow, long-handled pan in which food is fried.

Idioms for frying pan

    out of the frying pan into the fire, free of one predicament but immediately in a worse one.
Also fry-pan, fry·pan [frahy-pan] /ˈfraɪˌpæn/.
Also called skillet.

Origin of frying pan

1350–1400; Middle English fryinge panne

Words nearby frying pan

fry cook, fry, frying, frybread, frye, fryer, frying pan, fräulein, frère, fréchet, fréchette, frémont

British Dictionary definitions for out of the frying pan into the fire

frying pan

esp US fry-pan

noun

a long-handled shallow pan used for frying
out of the frying pan into the fire from a bad situation to a worse one

Idioms and Phrases with out of the frying pan into the fire

out of the frying pan into the fire

From a bad situation to one that is much worse. For example, After Karen quit the first law firm she went to one with even longer hours—out of the frying pan into the fire. This expression, a proverb in many languages, was first recorded in English in 1528.