Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is jump out of frying pan into the fire and its meaning is “to leave, move or escape from a situation (that is bad, difficult or stressful) into a worse one“.
Example Sentence: Will we come to see 2022 as the year populism finally ate itself? For if the last few years have been all about the collapse of public trust in the establishment then 2022 was the year trust in the anti-establishment collapsed too. It’s been a bad year for revolutionaries, but a worse one for those who badly needed to believe in them, only to realise too late they seem to have jumped out of a frying pan into the fire.
This phrase is present in The Guardian article From Musk to Truss, 2022 was the year reckless populists came crashing down to Earth and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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