banana skin

banana skin

n 1. (Plants) Also called: banana peel the soft outer covering of a banana 2. informal something unforeseen that causes an obvious and embarrassing mistake [sense 2 from the common slapstick joke of a person slipping after treading on a banana skin]

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banana skin - the skin of a banana (especially when it is stripped off and discarded); "he slipped on a banana skin and almost fell"banana peelpeel, skin - the rind of a fruit or vegetable

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