frying pan

noun
🔊/ˈfraɪɪŋ pæn/
🔊/ˈfraɪɪŋ pæn/
(North American English also frypan
🔊/ˈfraɪpæn/
🔊/ˈfraɪpæn/
, skillet)
Idioms
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  1. a large shallow pan with a long handle, used for frying food in长柄平底煎锅
    • Heat the butter in a heavy-based frying pan.用厚底煎锅把黄油加热。
    Topics Cooking and eatingb2
Idioms
out of the frying pan into the fire
  1. (saying) from a bad situation to one that is worse跳出油锅又落火坑;逃出虎口又入狼窝;每况愈下