Bear with me

I had a random thought of something that I may have thought when I was a kid but can't verify it.

You know the phrase ""I'll kill you with my bare hands"?

I was thinking that if I heard that phrase when I was little I might think someone meant they had the hands of a bear and were going to use them as weapons. Maybe they mounted them on both ends of a stick and would twirl them in a way to create a mauling sensation.

I would definitely be afraid of someone with bear hands attacking me.

That is all,

Newt