banana peel

English

Noun

banana peel (plural banana peels)

Two banana peels

1. (Canada, US, Philippines) The several outermost layers of a banana, especially once removed from the rest of the banana, which may be slippery if stepped on. (This sense is a translation hub.)
2. (Canada, US) A cause of difficulty, or potential embarrassment.
   • 1990, Vancouver Sun, February:

     Furthermore, he is completely surrounded by banana peels. Canada's economy is slowing down, though less so far than extreme pessimists feared. Newly released figures show that our merchandise trade surplus in 1989 fell by more than half to its lowest level in 10 years. And, ever since it peaked on Jan. 12, the dollars yo-yo motion has juddered erratically, signalling confusion to the money markets of the world where the mismanagement of a national economy is judged with a harsh and unforgiving coldness. The freshest banana peel under Mr. Wilson's foot is the report that inflation in January jumped from December's 5.1 per cent to 5.5 per cent -- right on the heels of Thursday's rise of more then half a percentage point in the Bank of Canada rate.

   • 2012, Van Jones, “Prologue: There and Back Again”, in Rebuild the Dream, Nation Books, →ISBN:

     We had the first black president, trying to bring home a victory on healthcare. I didn’t want to be a banana peel for him.

Synonyms

• (British) banana skin

Derived terms

• have one foot on a banana peel

Translations

outermost layer of the banana

• Arabic: قِشْر اَلْمَوْز f (qišr al-mawz)
• Azerbaijani: banan qabığı
• Belarusian: бана́навая лупі́на f (banánavaja lupína)
• Catalan: pela de plàtan f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 香蕉皮 (xiāngjiāo pí)

• Czech: banánová slupka f
• Danish: bananskræl (da) c
• Dutch: bananenschil (nl) f
• Esperanto: bananŝelo, banana ŝelo
• Finnish: banaaninkuori (fi)
• French: peau de banane (fr) f, pelure de banane (fr) f (Quebec)
• German: Bananenschale (de) f
• Greek: μπανανόφλουδα (el) f (bananóflouda)
• Hebrew: קליפת בננה
• Hungarian: banánhéj (hu)
• Icelandic: bananahýði n
• Indonesian: kulit pisang
• Irish: craiceann banana m
• Italian: buccia di banana f
• Japanese: バナナの皮 (banana no kawa)
• Korean: 바나나 껍질 (banana kkeopjil)
• Latvian: banāna miza f
• Lithuanian: banano žievė
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bananskall n

  Nynorsk: bananskal n

• Polish: skórka od banana f
• Portuguese: casca de banana f
• Romanian: coajă de banană f
• Russian: бана́новая кожура́ f (banánovaja kožurá)
• Serbo-Croatian: kora od banane
• Slovak: banánová šupka f
• Spanish: cáscara de banana f, cáscara de plátano f, cáscara bananera f, cáscara platanera f
• Swedish: bananskal (sv) n
• Turkish: muz kabuğu
• Ukrainian: бана́нова шкі́рка f (banánova škírka)
• Vietnamese: vỏ chuối (vi)
• Welsh: croen banana m (North), pil banana m (South)