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  • I’ve known him since he was knee high to a grasshopper, tearing round his grandma’s yard with scruffy knees. Now he’s got a mortgage and back pain.
  • I have been coming to this bakery since I was knee-high to a grasshopper, the smell takes me straight back.
  • Look at him captaining the team now, and I remember him knee-high to a grasshopper chasing pigeons in the square.
  • I've known Ellie since she was knee-high to a grasshopper, running about the farm in wellies three sizes too big.
  • He acts all hard now, but I remember when he was knee-high to a grasshopper and crying because a goose chased him.
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    And we polish it We add its tone, where it comes from when that's known, and its sibling expressions.

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