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knee-high to a grasshopper



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Idioms and Phrases

Quite 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 .
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Example Sentences

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We all puzzled over the things our parents said when we were “knee-high to a grasshopper.â€

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The ancients were probably drinking pink when Julius Caesar was knee-high to a grasshopper.

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He told Francois he was “intellectually knee-high to a grasshopperâ€, Bercow said.

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“I remember when you were knee-high to a grasshopper. Get over here, boy!â€

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In addition to the crowded “dog kennel†cells, he described children lining up for mealtime, with the littlest boy “knee-high to a grasshopper†at perhaps four or five years old.

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Idioms from 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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