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go bananas

verb

Etymology

From bananas (“crazy”).

Definitions

  1. To get angry

    To get angry; to go mad.

    • I just told her she couldn’t have any pudding until after dinner, and she went bananas!

  2. To become silly or excited

    To become silly or excited; to go crazy.

    • The music was going bananas with immensity at this point.
    • As my colleague Glenn MacDonald, an economics professor at Washington University in St. Louis, told me when I asked him if all these tech companies had gone bananas, “It all depends on how you think about risk aversion.”

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