knee-high to a grasshopper

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Adjective

knee-high to a grasshopper (not comparable)

1. (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)