go off the handle

verb

Definitions

  1. 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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