“Personally, I say, "Out of the frying pan and into the deadly pit filled with sharks who are wielding chainsaws with killer kittens stapled to them." However, that one's having a rough time catching on.”

“Out of the frying pan into the fire.”
De calcaria in carbonarium.

“3835. Out of the Frying-pan into the Fire.”

“Leape out of the frying pan into the fyre.”

“Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!”

“Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.”

“Just having thoughts of Marianne, quickest girl in the frying pan.”

“The effort only shifted me from the frying-pan into the fire.”

“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.”

“We feel free when we escape, even if it be from the frying pan into the fire.”