What's the definition of "grasshopper"?

AbbieNormal filted:
[nq:1]What does it mean when someone calls somebody grasshopper? Is the connotation positive/negative? Is this a Southern US term?[/nq]
Calling someone "grasshopper" implies that he's young, inexperienced, and somewhat impulsive...it comes from the 1970s television show "Kung Fu" where David Carradine's character was called this by the Shaolin monks who trained him..r

[nq:1]What does it mean when someone calls somebody grasshopper? Is the connotation positive/negative?[/nq]
It depends.
See Aesop and La fontaine's fable "The Ant and the Grasshopper".

The morale suggests that the lazy grasshopper is the bad guy, so the connotation of calling someone a grasshopper could be negative.

OTOH, the grasshopper is the free spirit, the artistic t

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[nq:1]What does it mean when someone calls somebody grasshopper? Is the connotation positive/negative? Is this a Southern US term?[/nq]
It means young student. I first heard it on a TV show back in the '70s, Kung Fu. I've no clue if the term is used in real life, but surely someone around here will know.

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[nq:1]What does it mean when someone calls somebody grasshopper? Is the connotation positive/negative? Is this a Southern US term?[/nq]
It comes from martial arts movies.

[nq:2]What does it mean when someone calls somebody grasshopper? ...[/nq]
[nq:1]It means young student. I first heard it on a TV show back in the '70s, Kung Fu. I've no clue if the term is used in real life ...[/nq]
I wouldn't have made that connection; I would have taken the word as a simple metaphor. A grasshopper is an insect famous for its ability to jump; someone called a grasshopper

Mark Brader was the last to write (without any attributions):
[nq:2]It means young student. I first heard it on a ... clue if the term is used in real life ...[/nq]
[nq:1]I wouldn't have made that connection; I would have taken the word as a simple metaphor. A grasshopper is an ... rather than settling down. This is more likely to be a young person, I guess, but not necessarily a student.[

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[nq:1]AbbieNormal filted:[/nq]
[nq:2]What does it mean when someone calls somebody grasshopper? Is the connotation positive/negative? Is this a Southern US term?[/nq]
[nq:1]Calling someone "grasshopper" implies that he's young, inexperienced, and somewhat impulsive...it comes from the 1970s television show "Kung Fu" where David Carradine's character was called this by the Shaolin monks who

rzed filted:
[nq:2]Calling someone "grasshopper" implies that he's young, inexperienced, and somewhat ... was called this by the Shaolin monks who trained him..r[/nq]
[nq:1]Not seriously meant as a nitpick, but it seems to me that most (or all?) of the flashbacks where Master ... younger actor was only leasing or borrowing the character, though. I just didn't know the acting business worke