Synonyms for go ape
go ape

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1. go apeverb

   Synonyms:
   go apeshit

2. go apeverb

   To become wildly excited or enthusiastic.

   Synonyms:
   go apeshit

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1. Jean Baudrillard:

   Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the liberty to associate for reasons other than the need for mutual back-scratching.

2. Marty Metalgod Ross:

   Without his tools man is just a common ape.

3. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859:

   He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. He must use observation to see, reasoning and judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided, firmness and self-control to hold to his deliberate decision.

4. H.L. Mencken:

   It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

5. Gore Vidal:

   There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the great ape as it issued from the androgynous chest of Johnny Weissmuller, to the accompaniment of thousands of arms and legs snapping during attempts to swing from tree to tree in the backyards of the Republic.