went bananas
Totally flipped out
Went bananas means became wildly excited, crazy, or out of control.
The phrase suggests behavior as erratic as a monkey with bananas—frenzied and uninhibited.
It can describe enthusiastic excitement The crowd went bananas when she walked onstage or angry loss of composure My dad went bananas when he saw the dent in his car.
- freaked outBecame extremely agitated
- lost itSuddenly gave way emotionally
- flipped outLost emotional control suddenly
- flew off the handleReacted with sudden rage
- frenzyViolent mental agitation
shouting · apeshit · conniption · mania · chaos · meltdown · berserk · hit the roof · threw a fit · euphoria · jubilation · hysteria · frantic · uproar · bonkers · unglued · wild · mental
- lost controllost control, lost it, snapped, freaked out, flipped out