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frying pan

noun

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

frying pan

noun

  1. a long-handled shallow pan used for frying
  2. out of the frying pan into the fire
    from a bad situation to a worse one
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of frying pan1

1350–1400; Middle English fryinge panne
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. out of the frying pan into the fire, free of one predicament but immediately in a worse one.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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