knee-high by the 4th of July

*knee-high by the 4th of July

Fig. grown as tall as it should. (Corn seedlings are proverbially supposed to be as high as someone's knee by July 4th.) (*Typically: be ~; become ~; grow ~.) What with this drought, I don't think the crop will be knee-high by the 4th of July. It's gonna be a good year. Knee-high by the 4th of July.

词组	knee-high by the 4th of July
释义	knee-high by the 4th of July knee-high by the 4th of July Fig.* grown as tall as it should. (Corn seedlings are proverbially supposed to be as high as someone's knee by July 4th.) (Typically: be ~; become ~; grow ~.) What with this drought, I don't think the crop will be knee-high by the 4th of July. It's gonna be a good year. Knee-high by the 4th of July. See also: 4th, by, July, of McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. See also:* knee-high to a duck knee-high to a jackrabbit knee knee high to a grasshopper knee-high to a grasshopper be knee-high to a grasshopper grasshopper give (one) the fig go to one's head, to all the thing References in periodicals archive "We usually say it should be knee-high by the 4th of July but it's already up to my shoulders. A-maz-ing puzzle's giant growth spurt
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