What is the meaning of driving you completely bananas?

Answer 1

Answer 1

'Banana' comes from burlesque, c. 1920s; 'Banana' is a comedian, 'top banana' as main comic and 'second banana' as straight man. To 'go bananas' is for an unsuccessful act; dogs, dancers, etc. to convert to a comic act, usually slapstick, badly underrehearsed and desperate.

Answer 2

(idiomatic) To go mad

I just told her that she couldn't have any pudding until she'd finished her main course, and she went bananas!

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/go_bananas

Sl. to go mildly crazy.

Sorry, I just went bananas for a minute. I thought he was going to go bananas.

to become very angry

She'll go bananas if she sees the room in this state.

to become very emotional

I just went bananas when she told me she wanted to move out.

http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/go+bananas

http://eslcafe.com/slang/g.html

Answer 2

Going crazy, losing your mind. A lack of mental stability. To go bananas is symptomatic of doing irrational things, a lack of reason.
"Going bananas" means to react in a overly excited or emotional manner (good or bad). Example: Mom's going bananas because I wrecked the car."
going bananas means going crazy
It means that you lose all control and begin acting crazy or wild.

Answer 3

The phrase may be associated with wild activities by monkeys who became acclimated to bananas as food (similar to the phrase go ape).

Or it may refer to wild, drunken behavior caused by drinking Indonesian native concoctions made from fermented bananas.

Answer 4

If someone or something is driving you completely bananas, it is annoying or frustrating you to a very high degree. Another phrase would be that "It's making you crasy" or driving you up a wall."

Answer 5

The phrase "go bananas" often means to go crazy. The phrase "go bananas" is also commonly used to refer to a person that is acting irrational or showing a lack of reason.

Answer 6

to go crazy :P