This phrase means going from an unpleasant situation to one even more so or to escape one evil predicament by leaping into another just as bad or worse. The English usage is traceable to a religious argument that arose between William Tyndale, translator of the Bible into English, and Sir Thomas More, the author of Utopia in the sixteenth century.

Übersetzung:

vom Regen in die Traufe kommen

Gegenteil(e)

The opposite of "jump out of the frying-pan into the fire" is "going from a bad situation to a better one".

Synonym(e):

You could also say: going from an unpleasant situation to one even worse.