| 单词 | knee-high to a grasshopper |
| 释义 | > as lemmasknee-high to a grasshopper Reaching as high as the knees. Frequently in jocular phrase (originally U.S.) knee-high to a grasshopper (and variants), i.e. very short. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > vertical extent > [adjective] > specific waist high1600 knee-high1742 mast-high1798 shoulder-high1837 horse-high1859 thigh-high1893 stride-high1906 treetop1945 the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [adjective] shorta900 littleOE lowa1398 untallc1535 dwarfish1542 shrimpish1549 pygmy1592 shrubby1603 dapper1606 punya1616 runtisha1642 truss1674 sesquipedalian1741 smally1764 petite1766 elfin1796 scram1825 squibbish1826 gnomic1845 dwarf-like1850 knee-high to a grasshopper1851 underhanded1856 nanoid1857 whipping-snapping1861 scrunty1868 midget1875 short-set1883 sawed-off1887 strunty1897 munchkin1930 sawn-off1936 short-arsed1951 1742 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Aug. xvi. 83 By Michaelmas following they were Knee-high. 1799 C. B. Brown Arthur Mervyn I. xv. 141 I never cried in my life, since I was knee-high. 1814 Portsmouth (New Hampsh.) Oracle 2 Apr. 3/2 One..who, as farmer Joe would say, is ‘about knee high to a toad’. 1824 Microscope (Albany, N.Y.) 12 June 55/1 He has lived with me ever since he was ‘knee high to a musquitoe’. 1833 Louisville Herald 20 Mar. It is really the best version of an old story we have heard ‘ever since we were knee-high to a frog’. 1833 J. Neal Down-easters I. 78 A bit of a rogue he was too, when he wa'n't more'n knee high to a bumbly-bee. 1841 W. G. Simms Kinsmen II. 63 Ever since I was knee high to a splinter. 1843 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 4 ii. 309 Heath growing knee-high. 1845 S. Judd Margaret i. xvi. 141 But they an't knee high to a toad to't. 1851 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. XXVIII. 301 You pretend to be my daddies; some of you who are not knee-high to a grasshopper! 1855 Florida Plant. Rec. 132 The cotton in the lower most cut..will avrige knee high. 1878 B. F. Taylor Between Gates 281 Nearly everything will grow in California. It seldom gets knee-high. 1887 Harper's Mag. Oct. 754/2 Their myriads of gray trunks stood knee-high in water. 1892 Dial. Notes 1 230 Knee high to a duck. 1899 M. N. Murfree Bushwhackers iii One of the men said that he had known Jerry since he was ‘knee-high ter a duck’. 1925 R. Graves Welchman's Hose 25 He gibed at modern poets, ‘Show me one Knee-high in stature to a Tennyson.’ 1937 Discovery June 170/2 The grass grows in thick tufts and is knee high. 1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 18 Apr. 2 Air gunners..envisage him [sc. a gremlin] as something fairly big—say, knee-high to an air-gunner. 1957 I. Cross God Boy (1958) xxii. 187 Sister Theresa, who is not much more than knee-high to a grasshopper. 1973 H. Carvic Miss Seeton Sings (1974) 35 A little Italian cock sparrow about knee-high to a grasshopper. < as lemmas |
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