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The origin of the idiom "Going Bananas" translates to behaving in a silly fashion, or slightly out of control.

Like most fruits, bananas ferment on the ground if left for a time. Monkeys, eating them, become intoxicated on the fermented alcohol. Thus, "going bananas" is acting as though drunk.

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