Welcome Back to Sunday & Southern Monthly!
If you missed the previous installments, you’ll be interested in reading Issue 1 where I give a full definition of colloquial and a favorite example of one. In Issue 2 you’ll find out what my youngest daughter does every morning. In Issue 3 you’ll find out what trait I’ve been fighting.
Here in Sunday & Southern Monthly in an attempt to bring a little southern style, charm, grace, and humor to you once a month, I publish a colloquialism favored in the South ~ a southernism.
Last month I realized this is a permanent part of my vocabulary ~
KNEE-HIGH TO A GRASSHOPPER
Informal Adjective Phrase
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Very short or small, especially due to youth
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Quite young
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Comparison emphasizing remoteness in time
Given the fact that grasshoppers are extremely short insects, roughly less than an inch tall, I’d say that’d make someone minuscule!
Expanded Definition
Knee-high to a grasshopper is an informal expression and a hyperbole or extreme exaggeration . It dates from about 1850 and replaced the earlier expressions: knee-high to a mosquito, knee-high to a bumblebee, and knee-high to a splinter. (Read more).
Tune in next month {in a month of Sundays 😉 } for the next installment of Sunday & Southern Monthly. You’ll read all about another silly southern saying.
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