Meaning of go off the handle | Babel Free

Definitions

To die.

colloquial

Examples

“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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