See go bananas on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_text": "From bananas (“crazy”).",
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"form": "goes bananas",
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},
{
"form": "going bananas",
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{
"form": "went bananas",
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"glosses": [
"To get angry; to go mad."
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"(idiomatic, informal) To get angry; to go mad."
],
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"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "get angry",
"word": "gå agurk"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "get angry",
"word": "bli tokig"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "get angry",
"word": "gå i taket"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "get angry",
"word": "få tuppjuck"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "get angry",
"word": "få psykbryt"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "get angry",
"word": "kuka ur"
}
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},
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"_dis": "6 94",
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"_dis": "20 80",
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"ref": "1982 August, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; 3), London: Pan Books, →ISBN, page 49:",
"text": "The music was going bananas with immensity at this point.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2023 June 6, Ian Bogost, “The Age of Goggles Has Arrived”, in The Atlantic:",
"text": "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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"glosses": [
"To become silly or excited; to go crazy."
],
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"(idiomatic, informal) To become silly or excited; to go crazy."
],
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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "become very excited",
"word": "gå bananas"
},
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"sense": "become very excited",
"word": "gå bananas"
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"_dis1": "13 87",
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"sense": "become very excited",
"word": "gå bananas"
},
{
"_dis1": "13 87",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "become very excited",
"word": "gå bananas"
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"_dis1": "55 45",
"word": "go ape"
},
{
"_dis1": "55 45",
"word": "go nuts"
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"word": "go bananas"
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"etymology_text": "From bananas (“crazy”).",
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},
{
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],
"glosses": [
"To get angry; to go mad."
],
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"angry",
"angry"
],
[
"go mad",
"go mad"
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],
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"(idiomatic, informal) To get angry; to go mad."
],
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"text": "The music was going bananas with immensity at this point.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2023 June 6, Ian Bogost, “The Age of Goggles Has Arrived”, in The Atlantic:",
"text": "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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],
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],
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],
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"excited",
"excited"
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"(idiomatic, informal) To become silly or excited; to go crazy."
],
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"synonyms": [
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"word": "go ape"
},
{
"word": "go nuts"
}
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"translations": [
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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "get angry",
"word": "gå agurk"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "get angry",
"word": "bli tokig"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "get angry",
"word": "gå i taket"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "get angry",
"word": "få tuppjuck"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "get angry",
"word": "få psykbryt"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "get angry",
"word": "kuka ur"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "become very excited",
"word": "gå bananas"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "become very excited",
"word": "gå bananas"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "become very excited",
"word": "gå bananas"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "become very excited",
"word": "gå bananas"
}
],
"word": "go bananas"
}
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