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"etymology_text": "From bananas (“crazy”).",
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"To get angry; to go mad."
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"(idiomatic, informal) To get angry; to go mad."
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"sense": "get angry",
"word": "gå agurk"
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"sense": "get angry",
"word": "gå i taket"
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"_dis1": "97 3",
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"sense": "get angry",
"word": "få tuppjuck"
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"_dis1": "97 3",
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"sense": "get angry",
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"_dis1": "97 3",
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"sense": "get angry",
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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.",
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"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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"To become silly or excited; to go crazy."
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"sense": "get angry",
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"sense": "get angry",
"word": "bli tokig"
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"word": "gå bananas"
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"sense": "become very excited",
"word": "gå bananas"
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