frying pan

• Poêle plate en métal avec un long manche, utilisée pour faire cuire des aliments à la chaleur.

A flat metal pan with a long handle, used for frying food over heat.

1. Cooking utensilA1formal

   A flat, round metal pan with a long handle, used for frying food.

   Poêle à frire

   • She heated oil in the frying pan before adding the eggs.
   • He bought a new non-stick frying pan for the kitchen.
   • The chef tossed the vegetables in the frying pan.

2. Idiom: out of the frying pan into the fireB2informal

   To go from a bad situation to an even worse one.

   poêle à frire

   • He left his stressful job only to start a failing business; it was out of the frying pan into the fire.
   • She thought moving would solve her problems, but it was like jumping out of the frying pan into the fire.
   • After escaping the storm, they got lost in the desert—truly out of the frying pan into the fire.