he went bananas
he got extremely angry
TRANSLATION
to go bananas = durchdrehen, ausflippen, verrückt werden
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
"My boss will go bananas when he reads the latest earnings report."
Hint: use this colourful phrase informally in general conversation.
An opposite expression might be "my boss kept his cool".
Hint: use this colourful phrase informally in general conversation.
An opposite expression might be "my boss kept his cool".
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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
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Synonyms:
babble, be delirious, carry on, come unglued, come unzipped, freak out, fume, gabble, go ape, go bananas, go crazy, go mad, harangue, jabber, perorate, prate, prattle, rage, rail, rant, rattle on, roar, run amuck, splutter, storm, talk wildly, thunder
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
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Synonyms:
babble, be delirious, carry on, come unglued, come unzipped, freak out, fume, gabble, go ape, go bananas, go crazy, go mad, harangue, jabber, perorate, prate, prattle, rage, rail, rant, rattle on, roar, run amuck, splutter, storm, talk wildly, thunder
