1.   Carrie kicked off her shoes and peeled her leotard down like a banana skin.

2.   The enamel has peeled off the taps like so much banana skin, revealing dull, patchy brass.

3.   They dug in garbage piles, looking for anything at all, banana skins, orange peels, discarded greens.

4.   This government has an unhappy knack of slipping on banana skins.

5.   ...banana skins.

6.   With banana skins like VAT on fuel and the economy some ministers may soon wish they too were on their sick bed.

7.   The amount of riboflavin in two square centimetres of banana skin.

8.   Banana skins and dog feces are pushed into their mailboxes.

9.   Wednesday, the plant bloomed all right, its purple-shaded and ribbed outer spathe peeled down like a banana skin, revealing a shimmering yellow core.

10.   Banana skins and feet of clay make it a bit more endurable for most of us to carry on humdrum lives.