go off the handle
verbDefinitions
To die.
- But the end came - the old fellow held on toughly; he never died until Lev's patience, hope and slender income were quite threadbare; so at last he went off the handle - Lev buried him and mourned the dispensation in true Kilkenny fashion.
- “Pansay went off the handle,” says Heatherlegh, “after the stimulus of long leave at Home.”
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