Ann, Ann! / Come! quick as you can! / There's a fish that talks / In the frying pan.

Ann, Ann! Come! quick as you can! There's a fish that talks In the frying-pan.

I have to sort of get myself back out there and this is sort of out of the frying pan into the fire.

There was still an hour or two of daylight - even though clouds admitted only a greyish light upon the world, and his Uncle Timothy's house was by nature friendly to gloom.

("Out Of The Deep")

An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.

Do diddle di do, / Poor Jim Jay / Got stuck fast / In Yesterday.