go bananas

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic,informal)To getangry; togo mad.I just told her she couldn’t have any pudding until after dinner, and shewent bananas!; (idiomatic,informal)To becomesillyorexcited; togo crazy.1982August,Douglas Adams,Life, the Universe and Everything(The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; 3), London:Pan Books,→ISBN,page49:The music wasgoing bananaswith immensity at this point.2023June 6, Ian Bogost, “The Age of Goggles Has Arrived”, inThe Atlantic‎[1]: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 hadgone bananas, “It all depends on how you think about risk aversion.”

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