GOING BANANAS

To go bananas is to become extremely excited or angry.

 Examples:

 “World Book Day 2019 is just around the corner and school children across Essex are getting set to go bananas over books.”

 “If you are among those who go bananas over mangoes, Khandani Rajhdhani is the place for you to be.”

 “Tesco customers go bananas over price increase”


 This term originated in America in the 1950s [1].


 [1] Cresswell, Julia. “banana” In The Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins. Oxford University Press, 2009. 

 Photo credit: Greg Hirson (Creative Commons)