Why do you often go bananas?

Today’s English
April 22nd, 2017

Banana, biscuit and carrot are not what they are when you use them as idiomatic expressions.  Whenever you are very angry, crazy, excited or silly, it means that you go bananas.

1. Did you see? After assuming this post, he often goes bananas.
2. Whatever happens, she would never go bananas.

“Take the biscuit” doesn’t mean that it is an offer by someone to have the biscuit.  If something is the most annoying or irritating thing you have ever experienced, you can refer to that as something that “takes the biscuit".

1. He was quiet even after that incident that took the biscuit.
2. What takes the biscuit is his repeated call when I’m busy.

To make someone work harder or to achieve what you want, you may announce a reward to motivate them or a punishment if they do not work.  This approach is called the carrot and stick method in English. 

1. Our principal has the carrot and stick approach and keeps everyone under his  perfect control.
2. Many parents use the carrot and stick method to discipline their children.

Do you know? : Researchers have found that eating bananas can cheer up a person since the fruit has amino acid, tryptophan plus vitamin B6 that together make the body produce serotonin (important one to alleviate mental depression).  This may be the reason why “go bananas” expression came into use.