Out of the frying pan and into the fire, as they say.

I have to say, though, this might be out of the frying pan and into the fire, man.

I had been drafted; out of the frying pan and into the fire.

Sounds like out of the frying pan and into the fire, if you ask me."

I guess you could say that's when I went out of the frying pan and into the fire.

Having grown up there, I knew that that would mean getting out of the frying pan and into the fire.

I wouldn't want to find myself heading for Colombia by mistake; out of the frying pan and into the fire.

Yep you guessed, its a case of out of the frying pan and into the fire.

It may be out of the frying pan and into the fire, since we're going straight north, toward the rest of the fighting."

It seemed to Bowman that the capsule was now heading straight toward the ship; they were out of the frying pan and into the fire.

"Out of the frying pan and into the fire, but that's what I'm counting on," thought Burke.

At most, they had three or four minutes to intercept whoever was in such a hurry to get out of the frying pan and into the fire.

"Out of the frying pan and into the fire," cries Car's wise mother, letting us know that there's trouble ahead for Tess.

Mr President, with the Commission proposal, we are out of the frying pan and into the fire: more flexibility but without clear-cut criteria.

For her part, Abigail speculated privately that any further role in politics might be "a little like getting out of the frying pan and into the fire."

Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Firing Line (1942)

Maybe she'd jumped out of the frying pan and into the fire . . . . She slid a glance in his direction.

It's just-" "Just that you feel like you're inviting them to jump out of the frying pan and into the fire," McKeon put in quietly.

Andy Igrejas, the environmental health campaign director at the National Environmental Trust, a nonprofit organization in Washington, characterized the switch as "out of the frying pan and into the fire."

We were compelled to act swiftly in a field where no great knowledge is available, and the fact that we merely got out of the frying pan and into the fire was just our hard luck.

Oh, how badly she wanted to run-desperate instincts told her to run-but common sense told her it would probably be only a classic case of hopping out of the frying pan and into the fire.

But it's out of the frying pan and into the fire for Fay; back at the mobile home where the pickup's driver and his buddies live, the fellow she was kissing tries to force her to perform fellatio.

The young woman was said to have braved the crocodile-infested river to swim to the Zimbabwean side of the river - thereby creating the impression of being "out of the frying pan and into the fire".

But they see a silver bridge to a floating island and Silly leaps out of the frying pan and into the fire when he tries to cross the bridge, but it turns out to be an illusion, and nearly falls over the cliff.