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Fire-pan

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (ns) Fire-pan
    a pan or metal vessel for holding fire
Idioms

Out of the frying pan, into the fire - If you get out of one problem, but find yourself in a worse situation, you are out of the frying pan, into the fire.

Etymology

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary A.S. fýr; Ger. feuer; Gr. pyr.

Usage in the news

Out of Greasy Pan, Into Fire For Bacon- Besotted Author. observer.com

Maia out of frying pan at 185, into fire at 170. espn.go.com

) and a series of "krazy kitchen" objects that includes a stand mixer, a blender and a frying pan on fire. latimes.com

Out of China's Frying Pan and Into its Fire. msnbc.msn.com

Beware of flipping the egg from the frying pan into the fire. snowmasssun.com

You could say that Jose and Javier Gonzalez went from the frying pan into the fire. hittierdailynews.com

Pans on Fire opens larger store in Hopyard Village Shopping Center Popular business, cooking classes outgrew downtown space. pleasantonweekly.com

Granby Center Fire Chief Donald LaBarge said the man, whose name has not been released, was cooking at a mobile home at 392 Rathburn Road when he tossed more meat into the pan. syracuse.com

You know what they say about jumping from the frying pan into the fire. usatoday.com

Kindle Fire panned by ' usability expert,' but will it matter. cnn.com

Out of someone else's frying pan and into our fire. timesobserver.com

(AP) — Fort Lee Fire Chief Tom Bahr says an unattended frying pan and cooking oil caused a fire that killed a soldier and his young daughter. dailypress.com

Prepare a hot charcoal fire, preheat a gas grill to high, or heat a large grill pan over high heat. abclocal.go.com

Guillermo del Toro, who calls himself "the geek from Guadalajara," fires up a classic cinematic fantasy in Pan's Labyrinth , a film for all ages, as long as they're open to gothic twists that scare them senseless. rollingstone.com

"We responded to a call at the new apartments across the bridge after a pan of oil burning on a stove caused a fire," Raymond Fire Department Chief Todd Strozyk told the Herald. flannerypubs.com

Usage in literature

He has literally fallen from the frying-pan into the fire. "The Sign of the Spider" by Bertram Mitford

Put 3/4 of the butter in a sauce pan over the fire. "The Cauliflower" by A. A. Crozier

We were next given some of the syrup out of the big pan which had just been taken off the fire. "India and the Indians" by Edward F. Elwin

Why, doctor, it seems to me that we are only going out of the frying-pan into the fire. "Hunting the Skipper" by George Manville Fenn

Upon reflection, it could scarce be "out of the frying-pan into the fire," and my resolution to go to Saint Louis became fixed. "The Quadroon" by Mayne Reid

There was another Sister in the room, who was stirring a pan over the fire, and at first I scarcely noticed her. "In Convent Walls" by Emily Sarah Holt

He lifted the pan of solder off the fire, set it aside, too, and got up. "The Chestermarke Instinct" by J. S. Fletcher

Luckily for those on the sidewalk, it did not; missing fire by a flash in the pan, as might have been anticipated. "The Free Lances" by Mayne Reid

That smouldering fire was the doctrine known as Greater Serbianism, sometimes wrongly spoken of as Pan-Serbianism. "The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8)" by Various

He relighted the fire, which had gone out long ago, and set the dish-pan on the stove with water to heat. "The Ranch at the Wolverine" by B. M. Bower

Usage in poetry
Thorns burn to a consistent ash, like man;
A splendid cleanser for the frying-pan:
And those who leap from pan to fire
Should this brave opposite admire.
For long it will remain a day of shifting,
Pre-festive cleaning, fanciful decor,
As once it used to be with Whitsun birches
Or pan-Athenian fires long before.