vom Regen in die Traufe

German

Alternative forms
  • aus dem Regen in die Traufe

Etymology

Literally: “out of the rain, into the water running down the roof”, referring to the situation where someone runs from the rain towards a house and is hit by a gush of water running down roof, thereby becoming wetter than they could have become in normal rain.

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Phrase

vom Regen in die Traufe

  1. out of the frying pan, into the fire (from a bad situation to a worse one)
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