• Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
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    8 days ago

    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.

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      8 days ago

      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.

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        8 days ago

        Fine. It’s not the right idiom to express the point.

        Point is still valid, even if I initially expressed it poorly.