fly off the handle

2 definitions found

fly off the handle - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  fly off the handle
      v 1: get 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, fly off the handle, flip one's wig,
           lose one's temper, blow a fuse, go ballistic]

fly off the handle - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  32 Moby Thesaurus words for "fly off the handle":
     be angry, be excitable, bellow, blow a fuse, blow a gasket,
     blow up, catch fire, catch the infection, come apart,
     excite easily, explode, fire up, flame up, flare up, flash up,
     flip, fly out, get excited, go into hysterics, have a tantrum,
     hit the ceiling, rage, ramp, rant, rant and rave, rave,
     run a temperature, seethe, smolder, storm, take fire,
     turn a hair