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  • Hi this is Tutor P and this is Idioms 234. The idiom today is to fly off

  • the handle. Okay. Let's look at the note here. If someone flies off the handle he

  • or she loses one's temper or loses his temper or loses her temper and gets very

  • angry and goes into an uncontrollable rage.( argh...) Probably something like that. All

  • right. Let's continue. The origin of this idiom is believed to come from axes that

  • were made poorly and would detach. And detach means separate from the handle . So

  • I guess you can imagine, if somebody's using an axe and they go back and then

  • the metal part flies off and if it hits somebody or almost hit somebody, you can

  • imagine they would be pretty angry about that. We say maybe that's where it came

  • from somebody must have got angry from these you know, the , the, the sharp part of the

  • axe flying off of the ...off of the handle. All right. Anyway , let's take a

  • look at the examples here. We have here number one. When mom found out that you

  • didn't come home the whole night , she flew off the handle. What ?

  • Oh my God she didn't come home ? Are you kidding me ? Something like that. She

  • probably got really you know, out of control angry. All right number two. When

  • Dad found it broken, he flew off the handle. Well whatever it is . Maybe it was

  • important to Dad and he was very , very angry to find that it was just broken. Or

  • number three here. If you lose your temper and fly off the handle , no one

  • will want to listen to you. So maybe that this is a person that has a problem that

  • they often lose their temper. Maybe they have a short temper and they might fly

  • off the handle very easily. Okay. Anyway, I hope you got it. I hope it's clear. Thank you

  • for your time. Bye-bye.

Hi this is Tutor P and this is Idioms 234. The idiom today is to fly off

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