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Does that mean the same thing as "out of the frying pan and into the frier"?
by logicchains 5y ago
Does that mean the same thing as "out of the frying pan and into the frier"?
- magneticnorth 5y agoNo - it's just meant to say the first option ("sinking ship") is bad; frying pan to fire means you went from one bad option to another. So in this case it's a dig at the US I assume, but not meant to be saying anything positive or negative about Australia. Good question though, I can see how those idioms sound like the same thing
- Symbiote 5y agoThat phrase is usually "out of the frying pan and into the fire" — from a bad situation into something equally bad. (The expression is older than friers.) "Like rats fleeing a sinking ship" refers to the expected imminent failure of the ship, which the rats could (supposedly) sense. (Or maybe there was water in the bottom already.) In this case, it's predicting the failure of Silicon Valley (or the USA, etc).