vom Regen in die Traufe
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Literally, “from the rain into the eaves”, 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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- out of the frying pan, into the fire (from a bad situation to a worse one)