英语词汇knee-high to a grasshopper的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	knee-high to a grasshopper
词源	knee-high to a grasshopper. Knee-high to a toad, first re- corded in 1814, was the original of this Americanism, and knee-high to a mosquito as well as knee-high to a frog appeared before knee-high to a grasshopper came on the scene some 37 years later. But knee-high to a grasshopper has outlasted all the others, including the later knee-high to a duck. See alsograsshopper.
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