banana : nf. The bananas is an oblong fruit (bathroom), with mealy pulp, thick yellow skin, produced by the flower cluster of the banana tree.
To have the banana: to be in shape, to be smiling, happy. I have the banana.
Banana peel: an unfair process intended to "bring down" someone.
« hey banana! »: Interjection intended to treat his interlocutor of fool, imbecile or absent-minded.
Banana: have a bitter failure.
It's a banana : a fool or an idiot.
To have one foot on the banana peel: to be close to death.
Crush your banana : Shut up !
Military decoration.
Slipping a banana peel on someone: using unfair methods towards someone to try to make them fail (see the expression below).
Don't let go of the banana: annoy someone.
Banana skin: sudden and violent mowing of the foot (sport).
Banana motor: En Ivory Coast, making a banana engine, is replacing a machine, for example, mowing the lawn with a machete.
Give the banana: induce an erection. She gives the banana that one.
To have a banana: to be erect.
Savor a banana: practice fellatio.
The synonymous expressions Soap the board and Slide a banana peel:
To use dishonest methods towards someone to delay or fail what he undertakes.
Those who once laughed during game shows like the TV show Intercity during which the participants had to pass without falling on a soapy board know that such a passage is extremely slippery and quite surely leads to a fall.
A sneakily dropped banana peel also has a high chance of causing you to crash into the ground.
We are therefore dealing here with simple metaphors where the end of the board or that of your trajectory correspond to the end of the task in which you are strongly involved, and where the soaped area or the banana peel are traps set by someone who wishes you harm and intended to prevent you from achieving the goal you have set for yourself or have been set for you.