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Hi and welcome to another edition of The English We Speak. Today I'm joined by Neil, who seems to be a bit agitated. |
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Ah, sorry Li. I'm really, really excited. |
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Actually, I haven't even got a script for the programme. I don't need a script. I don't need anything! I'm rich beyond my wildest dreams. |
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Oh, that's nice. How come that you've got rich all of a sudden? |
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A Mercedes Benz and a Porsche. And then a boat, then a yacht. A big one! |
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Neil, what happened? You are going bananas. |
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Bananas? No cheap old fruit for me any more, caviar, champagne, lobster and… |
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I'm not offering you bananas. You are not listening. I'm saying that you have gone bananas! |
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Sorry Li. I'm very excited because I won the lottery. |
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You know, this week they've got this big jackpot to offer and I got all the numbers right. |
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Good on you. |
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"To go bananas" has nothing to do with food, as you know. |
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It's an expression in English we use when we are so excited that we act almost out of control. |
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It is a very odd expression. We'd better let people know how it is used. |
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Good idea. |
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Let me write my shopping list while we listen to some examples of the use of this expression that has nothing to do with the actual fruit. |
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Here they are. |
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I'm so happy that I finally got my promotion. Yesterday I went bananas. |
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I ended up running around the office, hugging and kissing my boss and every single co-worker. |
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They probably thought I was mad. |
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After the team scored its fourth goal in the final the fans went bananas and started to shout and jump up and down. |
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So "to go bananas" is not an expression about food but about behaviour. |
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It means to behave in a very over-enthusiastic way, like you've gone crazy, an explosion of happiness. |
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That's true. All this excitement has made me want to go out shopping too. |
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I'll get myself a toy boat to play with in my bathtub and down the park, in the lake. |
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And then I'm going to the zoo. |
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The zoo? Why the zoo? |
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Because All this conversation about bananas made me keen to watch the monkeys. |
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I might give them some very big, shiny and tasty bananas, bright yellow, the colour of gold. |
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The colour of gold. The most beautiful colour there is. Golden bananas, the monkeys might even think that they've won the jackpot too. |
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Goodbye. |
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Goodbye. |
