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What is the origin of the phrase. Knee high to a grasshopper?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Well, the origin of all the 'knee-high' phrases I referred to above was people's perceived need to find a form of words which expressed how short/tiny someone was.
As for the first recorded occasion of the 'grasshopper' one - ie it appeared in print - that was in The Democratic Review No 28 published in the USA in 1851.
As for the first recorded occasion of the 'grasshopper' one - ie it appeared in print - that was in The Democratic Review No 28 published in the USA in 1851.