单词 | knee-high to a grasshopper |
释义 | knee-high to a grasshopperQuite young, as in I haven't seen him since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. This hyperbolic expression, dating from about 1850 and alluding to someone's youth, replaced the earlier knee-high to a mosquito or bumblebee or splinter. Words nearby knee-high to a grasshopperknee-chest position, knee-deep, knee drop, knee-elbow position, knee-high, knee-high to a grasshopper, kneehole, knee jerk, knee-jerk reflex, knee joint, kneel The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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