Search Result for "fly off the handle":
Wordnet 3.0

VERB (1)

1. get very angry and fly into a rage;
- Example: "The professor combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very elementary question"
- Example: "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]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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]
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