go bananas

Slang definitions & phrases for go bananas

go bananas

verb phrase
  1. To become wildly irrational; freak out, go ape: speculation that maybe old Strom had gone bananas at last
  2. To be extremely enthusiastic; admire enormously: She went bananas over the dress and bought one in every color

[late 1960s+; fr the spectacle of an ape greedily gobbling bananas]


Idioms and Phrases with go 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. [ ; second half of 1900s ]