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go bananas
Idioms and Phrases
Act crazy, as in When it comes to animal rights, some people go bananas . According to the lexicographer J. E. Lighter, this expression may allude to the similar go ape , in that apes and other primates are closely associated with eating bananas. [ Slang ; second half of 1900s]Example Sentences
Across the lawn, demonstrators carried signs that ranged from a handmade “Free Hugs Jewish Students” to pre-printed “I go bananas for Israel” — a taunt aimed at reports of someone with a banana allergy in the pro-Palestinian encampment.
Confession: I don’t always go bananas for depictions of food in art, but April brings a smattering of excellent and tasty shows.
“Yet it’s not cluttered up; it’s streamlined and simple. Whatever we did was going to be seen in that opening shot of the train going through Asteroid City, so we couldn’t go bananas and let any part of it get too big and out of control.”
Ms. Haley, at long last—are you going to go bananas, or not?
The crowd's going to go bananas.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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