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go bananas

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go bananas

Sl. to go mildly crazy. Sorry, I just went bananas for a minute. I thought he was going to go bananas.

See also: bananas

go bananas

to become very emotional I just went bananas when she told me she wanted to move out.

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go bananas

  (informal)

to become very angry She'll go bananas if she sees the room in this state.

See also: bananas

go bananas

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]

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go bananas

in. to go mildly crazy. (see also bananas.) I thought he was going to go bananas.

See also: bananas