Frying-pan

Is this our only food-word in a chapter title?  It is attested in OED.

  • CHAPTER VI – OUT OF THE FRYING-PAN INTO THE FIRE
  • 06.051 out of the frying-pan into the fire’

[06.051]  ‘What shall we do,  what shall we do!’ he cried.  ‘Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!’ he said,  and it became a proverb, though we now say ‘out of the frying-pan into the fire’ …

 

“ˈfrying-ˌpan, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/75171. Accessed 13 September 2017.

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