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fly off the handle |
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fly off the handle (informal) to react in a very angry way to something someone says or does. He really flew off the handle when I suggested selling the house. fly off the handle to get very angry. When we make mistakes, he brings it to our attention, but he doesn't fly off the handle like he used to. |
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I put up with it as long as I could and then joined in and tried to improve it, but this encouraged young George to join in too, and that made a failure of it; because George's voice was just "turning," and when he was singing a dismal sort of bass it was apt to fly off the handle and startle everybody with a most discordant cackle on the upper notes. |
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