off the handle
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It took me longer to grasp just how tired was plumb tired and what really happened when someone flew off the handle.
From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2024
The execution was better and Burdick weakly fouled the pitch off the handle of his bat.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
Mr. Baldwin may have a reputation of flying off the handle in his personal life, as when he blasted New York City on Twitter as “a mismanaged carnival of stupidity.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2021
That doesn’t mean I don’t fly off the handle at times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2021
Then the ax handle come ’live; it shakes and cracks into long skinny splinters, Pap screams, and his hands come flying off the handle like it had turnt itself into a lightning bolt.”
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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