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View synonyms for fly off the handle

fly off the handle

  1. To become suddenly enraged: “When Jack's father found out about the car, he really flew off the handle.”


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Idioms and Phrases

Lose one's temper, as in Tom flies off the handle at the slightest setback . This metaphoric expression alludes to the loosened head of a hammer flying off after a blow. [Early 1800s]

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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