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fly off the handle |
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fly off the handle Fig. to lose one's temper. Every time anyone mentions taxes, Mrs. Brown flies off the handle. If she keeps flying off the handle like that, she'll have a heart attack. 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 fly into a rage When we make mistakes, he brings it to our attention, but he doesn't fly off the handle like he used to. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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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