Idiom
make like a banana and split
Meaning
To leave, depart.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“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.”
Examples
simple
“It is late, so I will make like a banana and split.”
contextual
“The party is getting boring, so let's make like a banana and split before it gets too crowded.”
complex
“Realizing that his presence was no longer desired, he decided to make like a banana and split before the argument escalated further.”
Origin
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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