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dictionaries do not provide much context that would un-confuse someone who has not come into contact with a colloquialism.



The context is bananas means crazy. Dictionaries provide this context.


It would not have helped me in this situation. My assumption was "bananas heavy" was a phrase I was unfamiliar with, so I was trying to look that up. "Bananas heavy" is not in the dictionary,

I fully understood that bananas can mean crazy, but what I do not understand is the sentence and the context. I never would have used the word with that meaning like this.

Who would say something like this? I still don't understand why a person would say "bananas heavy" to mean "YouTube embeds are bloated". It just sounds so awkward and bizarre.


bananas == crazy; (x heavy) == crazy heavy




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