Images 24 - starring Kiefer Sutherland

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I will note that 'fly off the handle' is incorrectly depicted as an animal idiom. It's about a weighty chunk of mass literally and suddenly detaching from a handle, presumably while at speed and at considerable risk of causing injury.

Well, John Atkinson certainly didn't draw a fly on the handle. We have a trope for this sort of thing.

Oh, and source.