OFF: Screaming Dizbusters
Joseph Malcolm
jmalcolm at URAEUS.COM
Fri Nov 7 12:13:15 EST 1997
Ola Nyberg writes:
>>"Out of the frying pan into the fire" - is that a set phrase in English?
>>I'm thinking of a possible Deep Purple connection here...
>>though it sounds unlikely...
>
>Perhaps somebody whose mother tongue is English can help us out with the
>phrase. I don't think there's any Purple connection here.
It's a saying, which denotes going from one situation that's bad to
another one that's even worse. Fairly common.
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