“Would Grandmother scold him? Would she say, “Frank! Thank the gods, you've come. I'm surrounded by monsters.”
More likely she'd scold him, or mistake them for intruders and chase them off with a frying pan.”
Source: The Son of Neptune
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“The gods would take him and leave me bereft, and I curse them!”
"I have cursed them for years," said Ista dryly. "Turnabout being fair."
Source: World of the Five Gods series, Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 379

“[…] is running like a scolded dog! (usually said when a heel wrestler flees from a fight)”
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Broadcast of 15th Annual Grammy Awards, directed by Marty Pasetta for CBS, 3 March 1973

“Out of the frying pan into the fire.”
De calcaria in carbonarium.
De Carne Christi, 6; "The Roman version of the proverb is more literally translated "Out of the lime-kiln into the coal-furnace."