knee high to a grasshopper

English

Adjective

knee high to a grasshopper (not comparable)

1. (idiomatic) short; especially relating to when the subject was a small child

Translations

short

• Finnish: vaahtosammuttajan kokoinen (fi)
• French: haut comme trois pommes (fr)
• German: drei Käse hoch (de)

• Russian: от горшка два вершка (ru) (ot goršká dva veršká) (two "vershoks" from the night-pot), метр с кепкой (ru) (metr s képkoj) (meter high with a cap on), метр в прыжке (ru) (metr v pryžké) (meter high when jumping)