Go Ape

Go Ape Ice Breakers Button Museum
Category
Ice Breakers
Additional Images
Go Ape button back Ice Breakers Button Museum
Sub Categories
Illustrations
Animals
Text on Button GO APE.
Image Description

Brown illustration of an ape with a red mouth on a white background and a blue outer edge with black text
Curl Text copyright Best Seal Corp. New York 10013 1979
Back Style
Unlocking pin
The Shape
Circle
The Size
1 3/4 inch
Year / Decade Made
1979
1970s
Additional Information

“Go Ape” is an idiom that started to be used in the 1950s. The phrase is similar as “to go bananas”. It can be used to explain the excitement people feel:

Example:

The crowds go ape for Beyonce.

 

Or is can be used in a negative way:

Fans go ape when their team loses. 
Sources

Idioms Online. (2018, October 7). Go Ape. Idioms Online. https://www.idioms.online/go-ape/. 

Merriam-Webster. (n.d.). Go Ape. Merriam-Webster Dictionary. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/go%20ape. 
Catalog ID IB0265