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Meanings of banana skin in anglès

portuguès
casca de banana
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The skin of a banana (especially when it is stripped off and discarded)

casca de banana
Usage of banana skin in anglès
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A potential banana skin turned out to be the best possible tonic.
The Guardian
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The scraps of paper had somehow disappeared, like the banana skin.
The Pinhoe Egg
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I've been down there to look, and-andthe banana skin was there-allmashed.
The Second Violin
4
Instead of slipping on a banana skin, you get your head cut off.
The Guardian
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This Government will carry on, bar the unforeseen banana skin.
The Irish Times
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Tom got in a second shot with the banana skin.
My Tropic Isle
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One Tottenham fan received a stadium ban for throwing a banana skin towards Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
The South African
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That isn't one banana skin rather a whole plantation.
The Guardian
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A roller-coaster ride along a banana skin, more like.
The Irish Times
10
Southampton were flying then and Arsenal, of course, are always prone to locating a banana skin.
The Guardian
11
To be fair, it was a stinker of a draw for Kvitova, a real banana skin.
The Guardian
12
Somebody narrowly avoiding slipping on a banana skin, straightening himself up, then falling down a manhole.
The Irish Times
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The banana skin would be ill disciplined management being too slow to delay or cancel investment.
Reuters
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Fintan, in his article in your issue of April 11th, has totally forgotten about the banana skin.
The Irish Times
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Now and then even a writer as good as John Updike slips on the proverbial banana skin.
The Irish Times
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The monkey jumped down, and, snatching a banana skin, absorbed itself in picking it to shreds industriously.
Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River
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Translations for banana skin
portuguès
casca de banana