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frying pan

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.

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a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
Also, fry-pan, fry·pan [frahy-pan] .
Also called skillet.


Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English fryinge panne
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frying pan or 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
 
fry-pan or esp (US) fry-pan
 
n

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