banana skin
Noun
Meaning
the skin of a banana (especially when it is stripped off and discarded)
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banana peel
dodge
bloomer
error
confusion
mistake
fault
embarrassment
wrongdoing
perturbation
bewilderment
perplexity
discomfiture
blooper
infelicity
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Without hurting anybody, we all tend to laugh at others' discomfort. When someone slips on a banana skin and falls it's funny.
I was more qualified than most of the guys I was working with, which they hated. I'd come into work and there'd be a banana skin stuck to my overalls or a picture of a monkey on my coat.
he slipped on a banana skin and almost fell