Out of the frying pan into the fire

Meaning

To escape one bad situation only to end up in a worse one.

Vietnamese

Tránh vỏ dưa gặp vỏ dừa. — Thoát khỏi rắc rối này lại rơi vào rắc rối tệ hơn.

Examples

• He quit that job and joined a failing startup — out of the frying pan into the fire.
• Moving to avoid the noise put us next to a construction site: out of the frying pan into the fire.