knee-high to a grasshopper
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Adjective
knee-high
to
a
grasshopper
(
not comparable
)
(
idiomatic
)
short
; especially relating to when the subject was a small
child
Translations
short
Finnish:
vaahtosammuttimen kokoinen
French:
haut comme trois pommes
(fr)
German:
drei Käse hoch
Italian:
alto come un soldo di cacio
Polish:
ledwo odrosnąć od ziemi
pf
Russian:
от горшка́ два вершка́
(ru)
(
ot goršká dva veršká
)
(
two "vershoks" from the night-pot
)
,
метр с ке́пкой
(ru)
(
metr s képkoj
)
(
meter high with a cap on
)
,
метр в прыжке́
(
metr v pryžké
)
(
meter high when jumping
)