go bananas
/ˌɡəʊ bəˈnɑːnəz/INFORMAL · B2
Meaning
to become very angry or very excited
Examples
- 1Dad will go bananas when he sees the scratch on his new car.
- 2The crowd went bananas when the band came back on stage.
- 3My little brother goes bananas whenever someone touches his games console.
- 4When Priya scored the winning goal, her whole team went bananas and ran onto the pitch.
- 5Is the teacher going to go bananas if we hand in the project late again?
Grammar
Only go changes form: goes, went, gone. Keep bananas plural.
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