Name: English Tutor Nick P Idioms (234) Fly Off the Handle
Uploaded: 2019-05-07T14:11:35.000Z
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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