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Definition 2024

from an already bad situation to a worse one

Chinese:
Mandarin: 每況愈下 (zh), 每况愈下 (zh) ‎(měikuàngyùxià)
Czech: z louže pod okap, z deště pod okap, z bláta do louže (out of the puddle/rain under the drainpipe, out of the mud into the puddle)
Dutch: van de regen in de drup
Finnish: ojasta allikkoon (out of a ditch, into a pond)
French: aller de Charybde en Scylla (fr) (to go from Charybdis to Scylla)
German: aus dem Regen in die Traufe
Hungarian: cseberből vederbe (from the can into the bucket)
Icelandic: úr öskunni í eldinn (out of the ashes into the fire)
Irish: amach as na muineacha is isteach sna driseacha (out of the thickets and into the thornbushes)

Italian: cadere dalla padella nella brace (to fall from the frying pan into the embers), dalla padella alla brace
Japanese: 一難去って又一難 ‎(ichinan satte mata itinan)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fra asken til ilden (no) (out of the ashes into the fire)
Polish: wpaść z deszczu pod rynnę (pl)
Portuguese: da frigideira para o fogo
Romanian: din lac în puț (from the lake into the pit)
Russian: из огня́ да в по́лымя (ru) ‎(iz ognjá da v pólymja) (out of fire and into flame), от во́лка бежа́л, да на медве́дя попа́л ‎(ot vólka bežál, da na medvédja popál) (ran from a wolf, but ran into a bear)
Spanish: saliste de Guatemala y te metiste en Guatapeor
Swedish: ur askan i elden (out of the ashes into the fire)
Thai: หนีเสือปะจระเข้ ‎(nǐi-sʉ̌ʉa-bpà-jɔɔ-rá-kêe) (escape from a tiger only to meet a crocodile)
Turkish: yağmurdan kaçarken doluya tutulmak (tr) (out of the rain into the hail)
Vietnamese: tránh vỏ dưa gặp vỏ dừa ‎(escape from a watermelon rind only to meet a coconut shell)