I think this has taken us from the frying pan into a rather hotter fire.
When one is offered the alternative of the frying pan or the fire, he may conceivably prefer the third comfortable alternative of the hearth.
I almost do, because if they jumped into the fires of decontrol, at least the standard frying pan from which they escaped was quite intolerable.
I recognise the point that he has made, and that we should be out of the frying pan into a very big fire.
That is only jumping out of the frying pan into the fire.
We are given the choice of being either in the frying pan or in the fire.
There is concern that some children will be taken out of the frying pan and put into the fire.
To rush into such a tax would be to go out of the frying pan into the fire.
