banana peel
Noun
Meaning
the skin of a banana (especially when it is stripped off and discarded)
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Examples
My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave.
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
In a pinch, when my leather shoes need a quick shine, I take the inside of a banana peel and rub it on the leather like I would a shoe wax. Then I spit-shine it and buff it with a cloth, and my shoes look great.
In a banana republic, one might slip on a banana peel but things do work - now and then for the people, albeit inefficiently and unreliably.
People... need a time to laugh. It's up to us to bonk ourselves on the head and slip on a banana peel so the average guy can say, 'I may be bad, honey, but I'm not as much of an idiot as that guy on the screen.'
I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.