Its like
the frog in a pan of water that is slowly heated to boiling temperature.
I've heard that if you put
a frog in a pan of water and slowly heat it up, the frog could just sit there and boil.
Not exact matches
Every year we lose a little more, like a
frog in a
pan of boiling
water.
When she meets a character who's response to early tragedies is much more sinister than her own the reader is pulled
in and a bit breathless as page by page the intensity mounts and the question is whether Claire will prevail or succumb like the
frog swimming
in the ever hotter
pan of water (the author's analogy).