Definition of be knee-high to a grasshopper

knee-high to a grasshopper

• Or simply a seed before it sprouts.

  Last edited on Mar 01 2014. Submitted by Golden Mom on Mar 01 2014.

adjective

• short.

  Last edited on Aug 31 2009. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 31 2009.

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Other terms relating to 'a':
a	Definitions include: amphetamine.
A-1	Definitions include: the best.
a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.	Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting.
a bit much	Definitions include: excessive.
a bit of how's your father	Definitions include: sexual activity.
a boat	Definitions include: In the West/Central Canadian accent, "about" is pronounced somewhere between "aboot" and "a boat".
a couple beers short of a six-pack	Definitions include: a little crazy
a couple three	Definitions include: an unspecified small number.
act a fool	Definitions include: to play around.
a dime a dozen	Definitions include: very common.
a dog with two d*cks	Definitions include: a mythical creature who is extremely happy or fortunate.
a dollar three eighty	Definitions include: a non-specified price.
a dollar three eightyfive	Definitions include: a non-specified price.
adopt a tree	Definitions include: to collide with a tree.
a face that only a mother could love	Definitions include: an ugly face.
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Other terms relating to 'grasshopper':
grasshopper	Definitions include: form of address for a young person.
Other terms relating to 'high':
as high as a kite	Definitions include: extremely intoxicated from marijuana.
come hell or high water	Definitions include: no matter what.
get high	Definitions include: "Galesville Ettrick Trempealeau High School" in Galesville, WI.
HG	Definitions include: acronym for "high gravity".
high	Definitions include: intoxicated from drugs.
high as a kite	Definitions include: very high.
high ball	Definitions include: the upper range of an estimated figure.
high baller	Definitions include: a person who makes large sums of money.
high-beams	Definitions include: erect nipples.
high budget	Definitions include: of extreme high quality, expensive to a point that it becomes unattainable.
High Class White Trash	Definitions include: a intelligent, sophisticated person who comes from a poor or middle class family.
high cotton	Definitions include: see in high cotton.
higher than giraffe ears	Definitions include: very high; excessively high.
higher than tube socks	Definitions include: very high.
high-fallootin	Definitions include: pie-in-the-sky, fancy, crazy and elitist.
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Other terms relating to 'knee':
bee's knees, the	Definitions include: the best.
get (one's) knees dirty	Definitions include: to give oral sex.
get on (one's) knees	Definitions include: a phrase used by women to tell their man to go down on her (see to go down)
knee deep	Definitions include: sex.
knee jerk	Definitions include: an immediate reaction without examining reasons why.
knee-jerk reaction	Definitions include: an instant / instinctual reaction.
knee pit	Definitions include: the part of the leg opposite the knee.
knee-trembler	Definitions include: a session of outdoor sex.
trick knee	Definitions include: a knee with problems such that it may suddenly give out.
Other terms relating to 'to':
3 sheets to the wind	Definitions include: extremely intoxicated
9 to 5	Definitions include: See nine to five.
add fuel to the fire	Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse.
add insult to injury	Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse.
all your base are belong to us	Definitions include: a declaration of victory or superiority.
*ss-to-mouth	Definitions include: sex in which anal sex is immediately followed by fellatio.
back to (one's) roots	Definitions include: to revisit one's past.
back to square one	Definitions include: to go back to the beginning.
balls to the wall	Definitions include: extreme; "all out".
beat all to hell	Definitions include: to be vastly superior.
beat to the punch	Definitions include: to perform an activity before someone else.
be greek to	Definitions include: to be unintelligible.
be up to	Definitions include: to do.
bigger fish to fry	Definitions include: more important things to deal with.
blow to hell	Definitions include: to kill or destroy.
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