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out of the frying pan into the fireFrom a bad situation to one that is worse: he may find himself jumping out of the frying pan into the fire...- ‘When Middlesbrough beat us 2-0 (in October) they went second in the league and look where they are now,’ Allardyce pointed out, suggesting that Ricketts may have jumped out of the frying pan into the fire.
- Yes, yes I know; out of the frying pan into the fire but that's another story.
- A problem which has been addressed and solved by States or some of the States by the States' scheme of partial commutation which, on your argument, puts the legislation out of the frying pan into the fire.
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