The European Medicines Agency (EMA), which is the regulator for vaccines and medicine in the European Union (EU), has stopped using the social media platform X. The website is owned by Elon Musk, who is an important ally of the newly elected United States president Donald Trump. The EMA, whose headquarters are based in Amsterdam, is currently the only EU organization to leave the platform.
That’s not the right idiom, then.
I don’t agree that the idiom implies “worse”. In trying to escape being burnt in the frying pan, you’re getting burnt in the fire. Either way, you’re getting burnt.
You don’t get to decide how language works.
It implies going from a bad situation to a worse one, and has from the moment it existed.
Fine. It’s not the right idiom to express the point.
Point is still valid, even if I initially expressed it poorly.