Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.

Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.

Make ducks and drakes with shillings.

Make ducks and drakes with shillings.

Like Theon (i.e., a calumniating disposition).
[Lat., Dens Theonia.]

Like Theon (i.e., a calumniating disposition).
[Lat., Dens Theonia.]

Needle in a bottle of hay.

Needle in a bottle of hay.

A thorn in the flesh.

A thorn in the flesh.

As clear as a whistle.

As clear as a whistle.

By hooke or crooke.

By hooke or crooke.

Within a stone's throw of it.

Within a stone's throw of it.

Neither fish, flesh nor good red herring.

Neither fish, flesh nor good red herring.