The real warmongers fly off the handle on regular basis ..."
The politicians who can't handle the truth fly of the handle for nothing ... "
Leo Tolstoy
Liliputins. What the hell is this ?
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Fly off the handle
Meaning
Lose self control.
Origin
This is an American phrase and it alludes to the uncontrolled way a loose axe-head flies off from its handle. It is first found in print in Thomas C. Haliburton's The Attachй; or, Sam Slick in England, 1843/4:
"He flies right off the handle for nothing."
Haliburton was an inventive writer and had a hand in the coining of several commonly used phrases:
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