- fly off the handle
- verbget very angry and fly into a rage-
The professor combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very elementary question
-Spam makes me go ballistic
• Syn:↑flip one's lid, ↑blow up, ↑throw a fit, ↑hit the roof, ↑hit the ceiling, ↑have kittens, ↑have a fit, ↑combust, ↑blow one's stack, ↑flip one's wig, ↑lose one's temper, ↑blow a fuse, ↑go ballistic• Hypernyms: ↑rage• Verb Frames:-Somebody ——s
-Somebody ——s PP
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fly off the handle (informal)To lose one's temper• • •Main Entry: ↑fly————————fly off the handle see under ↑fly• • •Main Entry: ↑handle* * *
to suddenly become extremely angry without a good reasonHe flies off the handle every time the mail is late.
Thesaurus: to be, or to become angry or annoyedsynonymMain entry: fly* * *
informal lose one's temper suddenly and unexpectedlyOrigin:figuratively, with reference to the loose head of an ax* * *
fly off the handleinformal : to lose control of your emotions : to become very angryHe tends to fly off the handle when people disagree with him.
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fly off the ˈhandle idiom•
He seems to fly off the handle about the slightest thing these days.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.