knee-high by the 4th of July
- knee-high by the 4th of July
*knee-high by the 4th of July
Fig. grown as tall as it should. (Corn seedlings are proverbially supposed to be as high as someone's knee by July 4th.) (*Typically:
be \knee-high by the 4th of July
; become \knee-high by the 4th of July
; grow \knee-high by the 4th of July.) •
What with this drought, I don't think the crop will be knee-high by the 4th of July.
•
It's gonna be a good year. Knee-high by the 4th of July.
Dictionary of American idioms.
2013.
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