fly off the handle

Speech parts

1. fly off the handle - Verb

2. fly off the handle - Phrase

Meaning

get very angry and fly into a rage

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Synonyms

lose one's temper blow up blow a fuse hit the roof have a fit go ballistic hit the ceiling throw a fit flip one's lid blow one's stack flip one's wig lose it explode flip erupt
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Antonyms

chill out recover take it easy luxuriate unbend calm down
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Hypernyms

rage

Examples

The professor combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very elementary question Source: Internet

Spam makes me go ballistic Source: Internet

Some people will probably fly off the handle at me with that, but I guarantee there will be about 25 other things are going to fly off the handle about, too. Source: Internet

Words in the phrase

fly off the handle

Close letter words and terms

fly nut fly off fly off at a tangent fly off the shelves fly on fly on the wall