"go off the handle" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "goes off the handle",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "going off the handle",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "went off the handle",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gone off the handle",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "go<goes,,went,gone> off the handle"
      },
      "expansion": "go off the handle (third-person singular simple present goes off the handle, present participle going off the handle, simple past went off the handle, past participle gone off the handle)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
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            [
              148,
              167
            ]
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          "ref": "1856, Jonathan F. Kelley, “Nursing a Legacy”, in The Humors of Falconbridge, Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson, page 374:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 8:",
          "text": "“Pansay went off the handle,” says Heatherlegh, “after the stimulus of long leave at Home.”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To die."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "die",
          "die"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) To die."
      ],
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        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "go off the handle"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "goes off the handle",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "going off the handle",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "went off the handle",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gone off the handle",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "go<goes,,went,gone> off the handle"
      },
      "expansion": "go off the handle (third-person singular simple present goes off the handle, present participle going off the handle, simple past went off the handle, past participle gone off the handle)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
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              8,
              27
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          ],
          "ref": "1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 8:",
          "text": "“Pansay went off the handle,” says Heatherlegh, “after the stimulus of long leave at Home.”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To die."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "die",
          "die"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) To die."
      ],
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        "colloquial"
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    }
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  "word": "go off the handle"
}