Apor gillar väl nötter också, så man skulle ju kunna tro att "go nuts" har samma etymologi, men så tycks inte vara fallet:
Citat:
"Go nuts": "nuts" had meant "insane" for about a century. It probably has to do with the slang "nut" for "head" (from 1841), which became "off his nut" to designate insanity.
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