knee-high to a jackrabbit
- knee-high to a jackrabbit
*knee-high to a jackrabbit & *knee-high to a grasshopper
Rur. very small or short. (Usually used to describe children. *Typically:
be \knee-high to a jackrabbit
; since someone was\knee-high to a jackrabbit.) •
I've known you since you were knee-high to a jackrabbit.
•
My, how you've grown! The last time I saw you, you were knee-high to a grasshopper!
Dictionary of American idioms.
2013.
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