Go balls out
verb phrase
To make a supreme effort; go for broke: I went balls out on my term paper
[1980s+ Students; see balls-out and balls to the wall]
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verb phrase [late 1960s+; fr the spectacle of an ape greedily gobbling bananas] Act crazy, as in When it comes to animal rights, some people go bananas. According to the lexicographer J. E. Lighter, this expression may allude to the similar go ape, in that apes and other primates are closely associated with eating bananas. […]
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- Go batshit
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