Usage of "banana peel"

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Portuguese

Peel of the fruit of a banana (genus Musa)

Usage of banana peel in English

The banana peel in a man's brain that causes him to slip. 
 The Silly Syclopedia / A Terrible Thing in the Form of a Literar... 

But the banana peel knows a trick worth two of that. 
 Frank Merriwell's Nobility; Or, The Tragedy of the Ocean Tramp 

Our idea of Rabelaisian wit is a blind feller slipping on a banana peel. 
 11/22/63 

I didn't want to be a banana peel for him. 
 Ebony 

And he turned as pale as a dried-out banana peel. 
 Siddhartha 

After much maneuvering we got near, made a dash-andit was a banana peel! 
 Mince Pie 

The dog howled with pain and thrashed, its spine broken, the banana peel lost. 
 Boy’s Life 

But we also had it slip on a banana peel rather than push it over. 
 Wired 

There was a banana peel where my heel happened to be-andI wasn't half scrapping. 
 The Palace of Darkened Windows 

Just beyond the man's head was a banana peel. 
 Dayworld 

You've got one foot on a banana peel and the other going straight to hell. 
 The Guardian 

Eric emerged from the hallway, dressed in black, fiddling with a limp, spotted banana peel. 
 Mysterious Skin 

The suggestive looking toys are essentially a 'squishy surprise' that comes wrapped in a banana peel. 
 News.com.au 

One to play the game, and another to slip on a banana peel in the background. 
 iD 

I won't throw a banana peel under you. 
 Death masks 

One foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel, Hodges's father would have said. 
 End of Watch 

Translations for banana peel

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Meanings of banana peel in English