跳出釜底进火坑

跳出釜底進火坑

tiàochūfǔdǐ-jìnhuǒkēng

idiom

Meanings

1 out of the frying pan into the fire
2 to escape one disaster only to land in a worse one

Characters

Examples

他辞了那份累人的工作，结果新公司更糟，真是跳出釜底进火坑。

Tā cí le nà fèn lèirén de gōngzuò, jiéguǒ xīn gōngsī gèng zāo, zhēn shì tiàochū fǔdǐ jìn huǒkēng.

He quit that exhausting job, but the new company is even worse — straight out of the frying pan into the fire.

选择这家更黑的中介，简直是跳出釜底进火坑。

Xuǎnzé zhè jiā gèng hēi de zhōngjiè, jiǎnzhí shì tiàochū fǔdǐ jìn huǒkēng.

Picking this even shadier agent is just jumping out of the pot and into the fire pit.

Tips

memory

Visualise: 釜 (fǔ, ancient cauldron) — you jump out from under it (跳出釜底, escape the cauldron's bottom) only to land in 火坑 (huǒkēng, fire pit). The picture sells the meaning.

Stroke Order

跳 tiào

出 chū

釜 fǔ

底 dǐ

进 jìn

火 huǒ

坑 kēng