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"Knee-high to a grasshopper" nghĩa là gì?
02 Aug, 2019
Tuổi thơ dữ dội luôn! Photo courtesy doramakings
"Knee-high to a grasshopper/ mosquito/ bumblebee" = đầu gối mới cao bằng con châu chấu -> còn rất trẻ/ bé tí, lùn tịt hoặc cũng có nghĩa là trở về tuổi thơ.
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My mother taught my sisters and I to swim when we were knee-high to a grasshopper.
“Most people in my class decided when they were knee high to a grasshopper that they wanted to be a veterinarian (bác sĩ thú y),” he said.
Weston Richardson has been playing baseball ever since he was “knee-high to a grasshopper;” he always dreamed of getting to play in the World Series.
From the time I was knee-high to a grasshopper, I remember always watching my Grandpa Woloszyn, ‘a designer at Ford motor company,’ paint, draw and whittle (đẽo) things out of wood. He was always doing something with his hands.
Thu Phương
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