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frying pan
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noun
a shallow, long-handled pan in which food is fried.
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Idioms about frying pan
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]. /ˈfraɪˌpæn/.
Also called skillet.
Origin of frying pan
1350–1400; Middle English fryinge panne
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British Dictionary definitions for frying pan
frying pan
esp US fry-pan
noun
a long-handled shallow pan used for frying
out of the frying pan into the fire from a bad situation to a worse one
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