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ba·nan·as

(bə-năn′əz)

adj. Slang

1. Out of one's mind; crazy: "City dwellers ... are subjected to so much noise it drives them bananas" (New Yorker).

2. Wildly enthusiastic.

[From banana, worthless or crazy person, from banana.]

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bananas

(bəˈnɑːnəz)

adj

slang crazy (esp in the phrase go bananas)

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ba•nan•as

(bəˈnæn əz)

adj. Slang.

1. crazy.

2. wildly enthusiastic.

[1965–70]

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bananas

adjective

Slang. Afflicted with or exhibiting irrationality and mental unsoundness:

brainsick, crazy, daft, demented, disordered, distraught, dotty, insane, lunatic, mad, maniac, maniacal, mentally ill, moonstruck, off, touched, unbalanced, unsound, wrong.

Informal: bonkers, cracked, daffy, gaga, loony.

Slang: batty, buggy, cuckoo, fruity, loco, nuts, nutty, screwy, wacky.

Chiefly British: crackers.

Law: non compos mentis.

Idioms: around the bend, crazy as a loon, mad as a hatter, not all there, nutty as a fruitcake, off one's head, off one's rocker, of unsound mind, out of one's mind, sick in the head, stark raving mad.

Translations

bananas

[bəˈnɑːnəz] ADJ → chalado
to go bananas → perder la chaveta (over por)

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

bananas

[bəˈnɑːnəz] adj (= crazy) → dingue
to go bananas (= become angry) → piquer une crise banana skin n (British)

(lit) → peau f de banane

(fig) → peau f de bananebanana split n → banana split m inv

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

bananas

adj pred (inf: = crazy) → bekloppt (inf), → bescheuert (inf), → beknackt (sl); this is driving me bananas → das macht mich verrückt or ganz krank (inf); he’s bananas about her → er steht voll auf sie (sl); the whole place went bananas → der ganze Saal drehte durch (inf)

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They stopped under a clump of bananas, the fruit of which, as healthy as bread and as succulent as cream, was amply partaken of and appreciated.

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Those glorious bunches of bananas, which once decorated our stern and quarter-deck, have, alas, disappeared!

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Elizabeth's first act, when he had gone, was to fetch a banana from the ice-box.

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In his left hand he held a banana. Out of the right he dealt another dollar into space.

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Banana and plantain trees were burdened with great bunches of ripening fruit.

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With care and elaboration they ornamented that tree's lower branches with sugar-topped biscuits, oranges, bits of banana, and marrons glares till it looked very ape's path to Paradise.

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Bruno ran eagerly to the wall, and picked a fruit that was shaped something like a banana, but had the colour of a strawberry.