frying pan

frying pan
1. a shallow, long-handled pan in which food is fried.
2. out of the frying pan into the fire, free of one predicament but immediately in a worse one.
Also, fry-pan, frypan /fruy"pan'/. Also called skillet.
[1350-1400; ME fryinge panne]

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