To lose ones temper and react violently.
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.
"Write it off" means to dismiss something.
To laugh allot
The meaning of the idiom "to slap the back off you" is fairly straightforward. It implies an exaggeration, that one would slap someone else so hard that their back would come off.
Can you figure out the meaning by defining the terms literally? No, so it is an idiom. Literally, it means to remove something, but figuratively it means for an airplane to get off the ground.
No, that's "flew off the handle" meaning lost their temper.
Showing off, being well dressed and flashy.
Old sailing slang meaning to be no longer in danger.
It means being ticked off, or very mad.
Nothing. To get off the hook, however, means to escape punishment.
"To fly of the handle" is the correct term.