Synonyms for 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. H.L. Mencken:

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

2. Vance Havner:

   Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.

3. Baltasar Gracian:

   At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing.

4. 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.

5. Yevgeny Zamyatin:

   Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.