Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Arabic term or phrase:
من تحت الدلف لتحت المزراب
English translation:
Out of the frying pan, into the fire
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Liliane Hatem
Sep 9, 2012 17:42
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Arabic term
محمد
من تحت الدلف لتحت المزراب
Arabic to English
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أمثلة: علم الأحياء المجهري، علم الأخلاقعلم الوراثة
يعني الذي يذهب من موقف صعب الى اصعب منه
مثل من بلاد الشام
مثل من بلاد الشام
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| 5 +4 | Out of the frying pan, into the fire |
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Sep 20, 2012 17:29: Liliane Hatem Created KOG entry
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire
If you get out of one problem, but find yourself in a worse situation, you are out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Note added at 18 mins (2012-09-09 18:01:22 GMT)
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ant there is another idiom
"go from bad to worse"
to progress from a bad situation to one that is worse
if a situation goes from bad to worse, it gets worse than it already was
to become even more difficult or unpleasant
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Note added at 19 mins (2012-09-09 18:02:35 GMT)
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and there is another idiom
"go from bad to worse"
to become even more difficult or unpleasant
if a situation goes from bad to worse, it gets worse than it already was
to progress from a bad situation to one that is worse
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Note added at 18 mins (2012-09-09 18:01:22 GMT)
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ant there is another idiom
"go from bad to worse"
to progress from a bad situation to one that is worse
if a situation goes from bad to worse, it gets worse than it already was
to become even more difficult or unpleasant
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Note added at 19 mins (2012-09-09 18:02:35 GMT)
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and there is another idiom
"go from bad to worse"
to become even more difficult or unpleasant
if a situation goes from bad to worse, it gets worse than it already was
to progress from a bad situation to one that is worse
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