Fly - Fly off the handle

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Fly - Fly off the handle

Postby dreams » Sun Nov 02, 2003 12:41 am

Meaning: To lose one's temper and become a danger to those who are near. Like an ax head that flies off it's handle.

Deut. 19:5
As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:

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