Narrator: AS HIGH AS A KITE:
T-Rex: In history times, kites were the highest things around. This was before clouds existed, because there weren't enough of us around then for our exhaled breath to form them!
Narrator: PLAUSIBLE ORIGINS OF COMMON PHRASES FOR THE VERY CREDULOUS
Narrator: DON'T LOOK A GIFT HORSE IN THE MOUTH:
T-Rex: Originally this expression was "don't look any horse in the mouth", as the inside of the average horse's mouth is a maddening, insanity-inducing nightmare of impossible angles and non-Euclidean geometry. With the invention of equine orthodontics, the expression was modified to "GIFT horse", gift being an acronym for "Granting Insanity From Teeth".
Dromiceiomimus: Of course!!
Narrator: IT TAKES TWO TO TANGO:
T-Rex: Originally, tangos involved groups of three people!
Utahraptor: Or more!
T-Rex: This was before mass media, so when the dance was altered, catchy idiom was used to popularize the change!
Utahraptor: The effectiveness of this expression led to other language based news delivery, including 1492's "it's a small world" and 1676's discovery that "practice makes perfect".
Narrator: THIS CONCLUDES PLAUSIBLE ORIGINS OF COMMON PHRASES FOR THE VERY CREDULOUS
T-Rex: These phrase origins: they're so plausible!!
T-Rex: LISTEN, FRIENDS: nobody look them up to check them and we will get along JUST FINE
