"Fly off the handle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... deep water for it to work in. As it sank again, the engines—and they were triple-expansion, three cylinders in a row—snorted through all their three pistons: "Was that a joke, you fellow outside? It's an uncommonly poor one. How are we to do our work if you fly off the handle that way?" ...
— McClure's Magazine, March, 1896, Vol. VI., No. 4. • Various
... do I know what's the matter with you? Hey? Now, now, don't try to explain, Steve; don't fly off the handle! All right; grant that I do know what's bothering you; I want to see that ankle first. Here, somebody! Light that gas. Why the mischief don't you have the house wired for electricity, Stephen? It's wholesome. Gas isn't. Lamps are worse, sir. Do as I tell you!" And he went on ...
— The Fighting Chance • Robert W. Chambers
... were there alone. That's what of it. Now I put a charitable construction on the matter and say it was the peaches, when you fly off the handle like one ...
— The Idiot • John Kendrick Bangs |
