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knee-high_to_a_grasshopper

knee high to a grasshopper

English

Adjective

knee high to a grasshopper ‎(not comparable)

(idiomatic) short; especially relating to when the subject was a small child

Translations

short

Finnish: vaahtosammuttajan kokoinen
French: haut comme trois pommes (fr)
German: drei Käse hoch

Italian: alto come un soldo di cacio
Russian: от горшка́ два вершка́ (ru) ‎(ot goršká dva veršká) (two "vershoks" from the night-pot), метр с ке́пкой ‎(metr s képkoj) (meter high with a cap on), метр в прыжке́ ‎(metr v pryžké) (meter high when jumping)