跳出釜底进火坑

out of the frying pan into the fire (idiom)

to jump / to hop / to skip over / to bounce / to palpitate

to jump out / fig. to appear suddenly

to go out / to come out / to occur / to produce / to go beyond / to rise / to put forth / to happen / (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result) / classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc

variant of 出[chu1] (classifier for plays or chapters of classical novels)

kettle / cauldron

(equivalent to 的 as possessive particle)

background / bottom / base / end (of the month, year etc) / remnants / (math.) radix / base

to go forward / to advance / to go in / to enter / to put in / to submit / to take in / to admit / (math.) base of a number system / classifier for sections in a building or residential compound

fire / urgent / ammunition / fiery or flaming / internal heat (Chinese medicine) / hot (popular) / classifier for military units (old) / Kangxi radical 86

pit of fire / fig. living hell

hole / pit / tunnel / to defraud

variant of 坑[keng1] / pit / hole