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Why does bananas mean crazy? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Bananas, adj , excited and upset; ‘wild’ —College students, both sexes, Kentucky —I'd say it, but everyone would just go bananas The OED's second quotation is from a 1956 Ohio newspaper caption: We heard the police broadcast!! They say you're bananas!! But it's hard to gauge the exact meaning without seeing the picture
Usage of go to vs go - English Language Usage Stack Exchange You can also go halves, go places, go yesterday, go today, go tomorrow, go bananas, go commando, go scat, go hippie, go country, go native, go stag, go bush, go ape, go fishing, go walkabout, go bust, go all the way, or go eyes wide open Well, or go Dutch, but that doesn’t quite count
What is the origin of the phrase to go apeshit? Could it be related to acting like a crazed ape, and could the later go bananas and go batshit [crazy] derive from it? The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English by Tom Dalzell (2009) says go apeshit means to "lose control; to go crazy" and says it's US from 1951, but the earliest citation given is from 1961
Go or Get? Why get angry but go crazy, go crazy but get furious? Get crazy isn't popular as a synonym for go crazy, but the Ngram viewer attests to it And the theory doesn't explain why you can go pale and get pale, which process is generally beyond your control And you can go very pale Likely you go bananas because get bananas will confuse insanity with retrieving fruit
I have no . . . vs. I dont have . . . - English Language Usage Stack . . . Ah, in more detail - it's along the lines of say, something uncountable like milk You can't really go 'I don't have a milk' and so must go with the 'I have no milk' form, which strongly attaches the concept of 'absolutely nothing' strongly to that form in my head
Hence and hence why - English Language Usage Stack Exchange I like bananas, hence why I eat them I see a lot of people using the word "why" after the word "hence", and I have always considered it, at the very least, inefficient use of English Happy to find out other views Many thanks for all comments
Where does the period go when using parentheses? Where should the period go when using parentheses? For example: In sentence one, I use this example (which has a parenthesis at the end ) Should the period be inside, or outside of the parentheses?
commas - How should I punctuate around quotes where the punctuation . . . As you can see, I go with the British version, at least in informal writing Interesting fact: They are called typesetter's quotes because when typesetters were laying out the typesetting blocks putting the small blocks for punctuation inside the quotes made the layout more stable and less prone to shift around
Why put a comma before too when meaning as well but not before . . . A comma can do some work in making the meaning of a sentence clear, but to claim two different meanings for I like apples and bananas too with and without a comma before too puts too much pressure on the comma