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NL888 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Failed to understand "felt knee high to a grasshopper"
A grasshopper cannot be knee high - how to understand it?
Context:
For me, it was also personal. Long before the Higgs had been detected, I walked inside the tunnel that now houses the LHC, treading the ground where protons would soon be smashed together at the speed of light. I felt knee high to a grasshopper when I looked up at the detectors ATLAS and CMS, each several storeys high, that would go on to ensnare the Higgs. And of course, when the first protons set off in 2008, I was back again. Attending the Nobel ceremony was the next chapter.
More:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24758-higgs-nobel-bash-i-was-at-the-party-of-the-universe.html#.Uq7YQdJpXoU
Context:
For me, it was also personal. Long before the Higgs had been detected, I walked inside the tunnel that now houses the LHC, treading the ground where protons would soon be smashed together at the speed of light. I felt knee high to a grasshopper when I looked up at the detectors ATLAS and CMS, each several storeys high, that would go on to ensnare the Higgs. And of course, when the first protons set off in 2008, I was back again. Attending the Nobel ceremony was the next chapter.
More:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24758-higgs-nobel-bash-i-was-at-the-party-of-the-universe.html#.Uq7YQdJpXoU
Top answer
NL888 I felt ( like I was ) knee high to a grasshopper I felt very small (the height of a grasshopper's knee).
- NL888 I felt ( like I was ) knee high to a grasshopper I felt very small (the height of a grasshopper's knee).
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NL888I felt (like I was) knee high to a grasshopperI felt very small (the height of a grasshopper's knee).
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