TO JUMP FROM THE FRYING-PAN INTO THE FIRE, verb. phr. (common).—To go from bad to worse. Cf., ‘from the smoke into the smother’ (As You Like It, i. 2). Fr., tomber de la poêle dans la braise.
1684. BUNYAN, Pilgrim’s Progress, Part II. Some, though they shun the FRYING-PAN, do leap into the fire.
TO FRY THE PEWTER, verb phr. (thieves’).—To melt down pewter measures.
