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frying pan

–noun
1. a shallow, long-handled pan in which food is fried.
2. out of the frying pan into the fire, free of one predicament but immediately in a worse one.
Also, fry-pan, fry⋅pan [frahy-pan] .
Also called skillet.


Origin:
1350–1400; ME fryinge panne
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