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Meanings of banana skin in English

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

casca de banana
Synonyms
Examples for "banana peel"
Examples for "banana peel"
1
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...
2
But the banana peel knows a trick worth two of that.
Frank Merriwell's Nobility; Or, The Tragedy of the Ocean Tramp
3
Our idea of Rabelaisian wit is a blind feller slipping on a banana peel.
11/22/63
4
I didn't want to be a banana peel for him.
Ebony
5
And he turned as pale as a dried-out banana peel.
Siddhartha
Usage of banana skin in English
1
A potential banana skin turned out to be the best possible tonic.
The Guardian
2
The scraps of paper had somehow disappeared, like the banana skin.
The Pinhoe Egg
3
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
5
This Government will carry on, bar the unforeseen banana skin.
The Irish Times
6
Tom got in a second shot with the banana skin.
My Tropic Isle
7
One Tottenham fan received a stadium ban for throwing a banana skin towards Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
The South African
8
That isn't one banana skin rather a whole plantation.
The Guardian
9
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
13
The banana skin would be ill disciplined management being too slow to delay or cancel investment.
Reuters
14
Fintan, in his article in your issue of April 11th, has totally forgotten about the banana skin.
The Irish Times
15
Now and then even a writer as good as John Updike slips on the proverbial banana skin.
The Irish Times
16
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
Portuguese
casca de banana