Today's
Idiom: out of the frying pan into the fire.
Meaning: coming from a bad situation into a worse one.
General Notes: This idiom is not 'from frying pan to fire.' It is rather 'out of the frying pan into the fire.' You must include 'out of,' 'into,' and also avoid the omission of article 'the'
Meaning: coming from a bad situation into a worse one.
General Notes: This idiom is not 'from frying pan to fire.' It is rather 'out of the frying pan into the fire.' You must include 'out of,' 'into,' and also avoid the omission of article 'the'
An idiom is a group of words whose meaning is fixed,and more often than not,the meaning cannot be determined from the individual words making up the idiom.Therefore,ommiting a word, or adding a word, or even using a wrong word in the middle of the idiomatic expression,is enough to make it "wrongly expressed",as it were.From the foregoing therefore,leaving out "out of" and "into" ,in the idiom under review, mangles it's expression.Thank you, "Faculty"(in a manner of speaking).More power to your elbow.
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