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fly off

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fly off (third-person singular simple present flies off, present participle flying off, simple past flew off, past participle flown off)

(intransitive, idiomatic) To flee rapidly; to run away.

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A loose hammer head is hazardous because it can literally "fly off the handle" when in use, becoming a dangerous uncontrolled missile. Source: Internet

Although the Angels tied the game in the bottom of the ninth, the Red Sox won in the 11th on a Henderson sacrifice fly off Moore. Source: Internet

For example, it can apply a normal force at zero lateral force for the drop to fly off away from the surface in the normal direction or it can induce a lateral force at zero normal force (simulating zero gravity ). Source: Internet

I usually went with frightened, because I always had this strange feeling it was going to fly off and attack some poor person at random. Source: Internet

Lighting the pyre with a firebrand, she sends Wotan's ravens home with "anxiously longed-for tidings"; they fly off. Source: Internet

Normal adhesion is the adhesion required to detach a drop from the surface in the normal direction, namely the force to cause the drop to fly off from the surface. Source: Internet

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