“Out of the frying pan into the fire.”
De calcaria in carbonarium.
Tertullian (155–220) Christian theologian
De Carne Christi, 6; "The Roman version of the proverb is more literally translated "Out of the lime-kiln into the coal-furnace."
“The effort only shifted me from the frying-pan into the fire.”
— Lucian
"Menippus, a Necromantic Experiment", sect. 4; vol. 1, p. 158.
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