Out of the frying pan into the fire.
Proverbs on a similar topic
- Slowly but surely.
- Slow and steady Wins the race.
- Rome was not built in one day.
- More haste, less speed.
- Make haste slowly.
- Nothing should be done in haste but gripping a flea.
- Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
- Good and quickly seldom meet.
- Today a man, tomorrow a mouse.
- Stuff today and starve tomorrow.
- Out of the peat-pot into the mire.
Related proverbs
Similar proverbs in the same language
English
- Shunning the smoke they fall into the fire.
Similar proverbs in another language
Latin
- Cineres evitans, in carbones incidit. Avoiding the ashes, he fell into the coals.
- Fumum fugiens in ignem cecidit. Fleeing the smoke, he fell into the fire.
French
- Se jeter dans le feu pour éviter la fumée. Throw yourself into the fire to avoid the smoke.
- Tomber de poêle en braise. Falling from pan to ember.
German
- Aus der Pfanne ins Feuer. From the pan into the fire.
- Aus der Pfanne ins Feuer fallen. Drop from the pan into the fire.
Czech
- Chtěje se kyji vyhnouti, trefil jsem na palici. I tried to avoid the club, but I hit it on the head.
- Chtěje dýmu ujíti, upadl jsem do ohně. And to escape the smoke, I fell into the fire.
- Přišel z kyje na palici. He came in from the sea on a stick.
- Z kočáru na káru. From carriage to cart.
- Z dýmu do ohně padnouti. To fall from the smoke into the fire.