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etymology - Why does bananas mean crazy? - English Language Usage . . . 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
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 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 "Ape sweat"
Usage of go to vs go - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Go on is used with places related to holidays: vacation honeymoon; trip cruise; Go for a is used с noun related to activities: go for a swim run walk go for a beer massage Go + verb: 1 Let's go eat 2 I need to go wash my car 3 Go clean your room! Go + gerund: When we are talking about hobbies or entertaining activities
punctuation - Using a comma before and in a list - English Language . . . I am going to buy apples, oranges[,] and bananas at the store is not ambiguous Omission inclusion of the comma is optional (According to Wikipedia, use of the Oxford comma is more popular in American English than British English ) In certain situations the serial comma can resolve some ambiguity In these cases it should be used:
vocabulary - Whats nutty about fruit and cake? - English Language . . . But the phrase go bananas is said to be originated from zoos Monkeys in the zoo go wild when they see bananas coming Below is excerpt from the book Food: A Dictionary of Literal and Nonliteral Terms (By Robert Allen Palmatier): Cupcake is not necessarily related to fruits but it connoted homosexuality also in the 1970s:
Idiom for saying You are making someone go mad angry. From my personal, subjective, anecdotal experience, it is completely and utterly impossible to make Stallman go mad He's got more patience than most other people I know combined If you're looking for an equivalent of "to turn in one's grave" for RMS, I would go with "roll one's eyes" or "shrug"
How to say in a compact way: an increase of something is due to . . . An inverse relationship is a bit general (When apples go up, bananas go down ) Here, all we know is that banana sales suffered from apple sales "during the observed time period " Also, no disrespect, removing the word "I" from an answer displays more an authoritative answer and less a personal opinion –
terminology - Is to go + (onomatopoeia) a recognized pattern . . . Things or people can 'go crazy' or 'bananas' (you can 'send' them crazy - and 'turn' crazy' too) The best way I can describe such verbs are that they are being used as 'wild cards And there are wild card nouns as well as verbs
grammar - Is downtown an adverb of place? - English Language Usage . . . I'd classify constructions such as go mad crazy bananas grey bankrupt as link-like structures (go = turn, become, having more semantic content than be) with predicative adjectives Go downtown out in home abroad overseas employ go in its primary, physical-travel sense It is probably better to lump the directional terms as