out of the frying pan and into the fire

Going from one bad situation into a worse one. Also used to define a choice as being less than optimal.

Boss: "If you don't want to work late tonight, you can always come in this weekend."

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Macrat

Derived (by Alex) from the noun "Packrat", someone with the unnatural and unhealthy compulsion to collect old, outdated, strange or useless Macintosh Computers.

"I just nabbed an SE and a G3 all in one from the dump!" "Geez you're almost as big a Macrat as Grant!"

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whale

New England slang for beating someone up. To punch, or beat on.

"After Matty whaled on that kid he hopped on his bike and booked outta here."

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