Well, you know, Ted used a handful of phrases there, but we don't always know where the origins of those phrases come from, so it's time to learn, kids.

The Men's from top 10.

The Men's from top 10 Top 10. Common phrases with hidden meanings you may not know.

Like, don't beat around the bush.

It commonly means to stop wasting time and get to the point,

but historically was associated with hunting.

In medieval times, hunters hired men to beat the areas around bushes with sticks to flush out game. They wouldn't hit the bush directly because they might

whack a bees nest. So don't beat around the bush because you might not like the outcome you dullard.

Thank you, Vivi.

Common phrases with hidden meanings that you may not know, I had to take a few off this list because, quite frankly,

there's a lot of very offensive phrases that we have around here.

How.

Thank you, Mike. Offensive to me? Yeah, why yes? That's how that works and others and others. Being

moronic shows up on the list psychologist Henry H. Gottered is known as one of the pioneers of eugenics, a science rooted, uh, yeah.

He claimed that he could create a more desirable human population by weeding out the traits that made someone

unworthy of reproduction in the eyes of eugenics.

Unworthy of rep- Yeah!

That's like an insult you want to drop on someone.

He's responsible for coining the term moron, which he indicated as a feeble-minded person an argument that

gained him and his team access to the immigrants attempting to enter

America through Ellis Island.

Wow! Through his work nearly 40% of immigrants of Jewish, Italian, or Hungarian descent were deported or denied access to the U.S. by way of their moronic classification.

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