fly off the handle (third-person singular simple present flies off the handle, present participle flying off the handle, simple past flew off the handle, past participle flown off the handle)
- (colloquial) To become very angry or enraged; to throw a fit or go crazy.
My dad flew off the handle when he saw the F grade on my report card.
become very angry
- Basque: bere onetik irten
- Catalan: sortir de polleguera
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 勃然大怒 (zh) (bórándànù)
- Finnish: menettää malttinsa (fi), polttaa päreensä
- French: sortir de ses gonds (fr)
- German: aus der Haut fahren (de)
- Hungarian: begurul (hu), dühbe gurul (hu), dühbe jön (hu), kiakad (hu), felmegy a pumpa, felkapja a vizet, kikel magából, bepöccen (hu), kijön a béketűrésből, kijön a sodrából (hu)
- Italian: uscire dai gangheri
- Latvian: uzsprāgt gaisā
- Persian: از کوره دررفتن sg (az kure darraftan)
- Spanish: perder los estribos
- Swedish: få tuppjuck
- Walloon: potchî foû d’ ses clicotes (wa), monter a sminces
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