The LITERAL meaning is that you are on a handle and you fly off it.
The LITERAL meaning is that you are on a handle and you fly off it.
To lose ones temper and react violently.
No, that's "flew off the handle" meaning lost their temper.
"To fly of the handle" is the correct term.
I turned off the flame on the gas stove.I turned off from my boyfriend's sexual advances.Literal just means that what you read actually happened. Figurative means that it is an idiom or slang, that it didn't actually happen.He kicked the bucket. The literal meaning is that he kicked a bucket. The figurative meaning is that he died.That's a piece of cake. The literal meaning is that it is a slice of cake. The figurative meaning is that it is something easy to do.
# To fly off the handle # To go off the deep end
Take off is a phrasal verb and has idiomatic meanings and literal meanings Mitch wants to take off for parts unknown. -- means to leave to go some where -- idiomatic meaning Carol wants to take off her shoes to relieve her sore feet. -- means to remove something -- literal meaning The plan will take off soon. -- idiomatic meaning -- means to go into the sky
One of the technical words I use in this answer is "Connotation", just fancy talk for the associated meaning of a word.The direct of literal meaning of a word is basically just taking something at it's basic level. Let's take an example:Jumping off the wallsThe connotation is that they're really hyper, right? The direct or literal meaning is that they're really jumping off the walls. You'd think that they might be at a trampoline park!
rising off of something like a fly arised off a cow
One of the technical words I use in this answer is "Connotation", just fancy talk for the associated meaning of a word.The direct of literal meaning of a word is basically just taking something at it's basic level. Let's take an example:Jumping off the wallsThe connotation is that they're really hyper, right? The direct or literal meaning is that they're really jumping off the walls. You'd think that they might be at a trampoline park!
One of the technical words I use in this answer is "Connotation", just fancy talk for the associated meaning of a word.The direct of literal meaning of a word is basically just taking something at it's basic level. Let's take an example:Jumping off the wallsThe connotation is that they're really hyper, right? The direct or literal meaning is that they're really jumping off the walls. You'd think that they might be at a trampoline park!
When someone says that you've flown off of the handle they mean you've gone crazy. Many times this is an angry type of crazy.