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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
He鈥檚 got too much on his mind to allow this monkey to really go bananas, and his indecision makes the movie鈥檚 nihilistic viewpoint feel all the more hollow and forced.
Across the lawn, demonstrators carried signs that ranged from a handmade 鈥淔ree Hugs Jewish Students鈥 to pre-printed 鈥淚 go bananas for Israel鈥 鈥 a taunt aimed at reports of someone with a banana allergy in the pro-Palestinian encampment.
Confession: I don鈥檛 always go bananas for depictions of food in art, but April brings a smattering of excellent and tasty shows.
鈥淵et it鈥檚 not cluttered up; it鈥檚 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鈥檛 go bananas and let any part of it get too big and out of control.鈥
Ms. Haley, at long last鈥攁re you going to go bananas, or not?
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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