Stove : not. f. A frying pan is a metal, flat, usually round, low-sided kitchen utensil with a long tail.
Reprimand: throw a stove, reprimand.
To hold the tail of the pan: to have the direction of a business; the responsibility of a company.
Don't be half the tail of the pan: be more important than that.
Chestnut or chestnut pan: said of a person with a pockmarked face.