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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
fry′ing pan′, 
    1. a shallow, long-handled pan in which food is fried.
    2. Idioms out of the frying pan into the fire, free of one predicament but immediately in a worse one.
    Also, fry-pan, fry•pan  (frī′pan′).USA pronunciation Also called skillet. 
    • Middle English fryinge panne 1350–1400

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
frying pan, esp US fry-pan n
  1. a long-handled shallow pan used for frying
  2. out of the frying pan into the fire ⇒ from a bad situation to a worse one
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