fly off the handle

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To become very angry or enraged; to throw a fit or go crazy. colloquial,idiomatic
    — My dad flew off the handle when he saw the F grade on my report card.

词形变化

flies off the handle present,singular,third-person flying off the handle participle,present flew off the handle past flown off the handle participle,past

词源

From the image of an axe head becoming loose and suddenly flying free of its handle, a vivid metaphor for losing control. The phrase is an early 19th-century American idiom, with printed examples first appearing c. the 1810s–1830s.
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