Origin
This expression, a proverb in many languages, was first recorded in English in 1528.
Explanation
This proverb is used for saying that someone gets out of a difficult or bad situation, but eventually goes into a more difficult or worse one. It is also used for defining a choice as being less than optimal.The sense of the expression has always been to escape one evil predicament by leaping into another just as bad or worse. It is used in reference to a person who is in a bad situation that is likely to get worse, and in which there appears to be little or no hope of a way out.We sometimes want so much to get out of one difficult situation that we end up jumping into another, that is even worse. It simply means out of one evil or danger merely to fall into a greater one.
Examples
When I tried to argue about my fine for a traffic violation, the judge charged me with contempt of court. I really went out of the frying pan into the fire.
I got deeply in debt. Then I really got out of the frying pan into the fire when I lost my job.
After Karen had quit the first law firm, she went to the one with even longer hours-out of the frying pan into the fire.
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