make like a banana and split
To leave, depart.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
“It is late, so I will make like a banana and split.”
“The party is getting boring, so let's make like a banana and split before it gets too crowded.”
“Realizing that his presence was no longer desired, he decided to make like a banana and split before the argument escalated further.”
Attested as a play on the dessert known as a banana split, the phrase functions as a pun on the slang sense of the verb split, meaning to depart. The construction relies upon the phonetic identity between the name of the confection and the instruction to leave a location.
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absence makes the heart grow fonder
One feels more love or affection for those one loves when parted from them.
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and the like
And other similar items; et cetera.
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banana nose
A large, unusually long nose.
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banana republic
A small country, especially one in Central America or the West Indies, that is dependent on a single export commodity (traditionally bananas) and that has a corrupt, dictatorial government.
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be like
To say.
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built like a brick outhouse
Synonym of built like a brick shithouse.
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built like a brick shipyard
Synonym of built like a brick shithouse.
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built like a brick shithouse
Of a man, having a muscular body, particularly with well-developed muscles of the chest, arms and abdominals.
Last updated August 10, 2026