[00:01.20]Hi and welcome to another edition of The English We Speak. Today I'm joined by Neil, who seems to be a bit agitated.
[00:10.70]Ah, sorry Li. I'm really, really excited.
[00:13.99]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.
[00:23.26]Oh, that's nice. How come that you've got rich all of a sudden?
[00:27.98]A Mercedes Benz and a Porsche. And then a boat, then a yacht. A big one!
[00:34.53]Neil, what happened? You are going bananas.
[00:38.49] Bananas? No cheap old fruit for me any more, caviar, champagne, lobster and…
[00:47.60]I'm not offering you bananas. You are not listening. I'm saying that you have gone bananas!
[00:53.44]Sorry Li. I'm very excited because I won the lottery.
[00:59.79]You know, this week they've got this big jackpot to offer and I got all the numbers right.
[01:06.84]Good on you.
[01:09.23]"To go bananas" has nothing to do with food, as you know.
[01:13.41]It's an expression in English we use when we are so excited that we act almost out of control.
[01:19.88]It is a very odd expression. We'd better let people know how it is used.
[01:25.00]Good idea.
[01:26.35]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.
[01:34.92]Here they are.
[01:36.17]I'm so happy that I finally got my promotion. Yesterday I went bananas.
[01:41.13]I ended up running around the office, hugging and kissing my boss and every single co-worker.
[01:47.13]They probably thought I was mad.
[01:49.40]After the team scored its fourth goal in the final the fans went bananas and started to shout and jump up and down.
[01:57.79]So "to go bananas" is not an expression about food but about behaviour.
[02:03.14]It means to behave in a very over-enthusiastic way, like you've gone crazy, an explosion of happiness.
[02:10.77]That's true. All this excitement has made me want to go out shopping too.
[02:16.26]I'll get myself a toy boat to play with in my bathtub and down the park, in the lake.
[02:24.64]And then I'm going to the zoo.
[02:26.69]The zoo? Why the zoo?
[02:28.33]Because All this conversation about bananas made me keen to watch the monkeys.
[02:33.55]I might give them some very big, shiny and tasty bananas, bright yellow, the colour of gold.
[02:40.24]The colour of gold. The most beautiful colour there is. Golden bananas, the monkeys might even think that they've won the jackpot too.
[02:54.79]Goodbye.
[02:55.78]Goodbye.