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Definition of Banana skin
1. Noun. The skin of a banana (especially when it is stripped off and discarded). "He slipped on a banana skin and almost fell"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Banana Skin
Literary usage of Banana skin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All Cases Affecting by Frank Cyrus Smith, Thomas Johnson Michie, United States Courts, Great Britain Courts, Canada Courts (1901)
"Where a passenger alighting from a train slips on a banana skin, and there is no
evidence as to the length of time it had been on the platform, ..."
2. Advanced Lessons in Everyday English by Emma Miller Bolenius (1921)
"Tom throws the banana skin into the garbage can. 2. Will threw the banana skin
into the garbage can. 3. Ned will throw the banana skin into the garbage can. ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Carriers: As Administered in the Courts of the by Robert Hutchinson, Jacob Scott Matthews, William Frederick Dickinson (1906)
"Thus it has been held that, where there is no evidence as to the length of time
a banana skin was on the station platform, the company cannot be held liable ..."
4. The Canadian Law Times by Judicial Committee, Great Britain, Privy Council (1919)
"One of the leading cases in which this principle of law was expounded was the
famous banana skin case, Sheldon v. Needham, 7 BWCC 471, where an employer ..."
5. ... The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1892)
"There wafl a banana-skin which she might naturally have trodden on, in her way
to tho ... Tho idea of tho Doctor's putting that banana-skin there ! ..."
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