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Associations of "Fly off the handle" (30 Words)
| abolish | Do away with. Slavery was abolished in the mid 19th century in America and in Russia. |
| abrogate | Repeal or do away with (a law, right, or formal agreement. A proposal to abrogate temporarily the right to strike. |
| abrogation | The act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation. |
| annul | Declare (a marriage) to have had no legal existence. The elections were annulled by the general amid renewed protests. |
| ant | Social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers. |
| bee | An insect of a large group to which the honeybee belongs including many solitary as well as social kinds. A sewing bee. |
| blimp | A fat person. I could work out four hours a day and still end up a blimp. |
| bug | An insect of a large order distinguished by having mouthparts that are modified for piercing and sucking. Is this hotel room bugged. |
| butterfly | Flutter like a butterfly. A social butterfly. |
| buzz | Make a buzzing sound. Planes buzzed the crowds in the square. |
| cancel | A notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat. Cancel the dinner party. |
| cockroach | A scavenging insect that resembles a beetle, having long antennae and legs and typically a broad, flattened body. Several tropical kinds have become established worldwide as household pests. |
| dragonfly | Slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc. |
| exterminator | A person whose job is to eradicate pests from a building or area; a pest controller. If your house has scorpions call a professional exterminator. |
| flea | A small wingless jumping insect which feeds on the blood of mammals and birds. It sometimes transmits diseases through its bite, including plague and myxomatosis. |
| grasshopper | Terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping. |
| housefly | A common small fly occurring worldwide in and around human habitation. Its eggs are laid in decaying material, and the fly can be a health hazard due to its contamination of food. |
| hustle | Engage in prostitution. The hustle and bustle of the big cities. |
| insect | Small air-breathing arthropod. Insect pests. |
| mosquito | A slender long-legged fly with aquatic larvae. The bite of the bloodsucking female can transmit a number of serious diseases including malaria and elephantiasis. |
| moth | A clothes moth. I store my sweaters in plastic bags to protect them from moths. |
| null | Combine a signal with another in order to create a null cancel out. The establishment of a new interim government was declared null and void. |
| nullify | Declare invalid. Judges were unwilling to nullify government decisions. |
| override | Counteract the normal operation of (an automatic gear shift in a vehicle. Commission overrides give established carriers an unfair advantage. |
| pilot | Be the pilot of an aircraft or ship. A strike by local airline pilots. |
| plane | Make even or smooth with or as with a carpenter s plane. The plane of his forehead. |
| rescind | Cancel officially. The government eventually rescinded the directive. |
| Talk in a light, high-pitched voice. What a great crowd Perry twittered. | |
| warble | A lumpy abscess under the hide of domestic mammals caused by larvae of a botfly or warble fly. He warbled in an implausible soprano. |
| withdrawal | A retraction of a previously held position. The withdrawal of French troops from Vietnam. |