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Food idioms – AIRC423

Aprender ingles with Reza and Craig

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The Cookie Crushes, It Drives Me Bananas

I don't think I'm going to be able to look at a cookie in the same way ever again without thinking of this idiom now. It's talking about red tape and bureaucracy here in Spain, it drives me nuts. The number pieces of paper I must have had to fill in over the last month or so has just driven me nuts. If something drives you nuts or drives you bananas, it makes you crazy. For example, he's driving me nuts with his political conspiracy theories. He's driving me crazy. And in a similar way, you can collocate bananas with the verb to go - for example, someone crashed into her car and she went bananas. But that's obviously

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