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- knee-high by the 4th of July
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.
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
|---|
| Saundra | | - | Scottish |
| Annabeth | | AN-ə-beth | English (Rare) |
| Afif | | - | Arabic |
| Kire | | - | Macedonian |
| Mercedes | | mer-THE-dhes (Spanish), mer-SE-dhes (Latin American Spanish) | Spanish |
| Timoteus | | - | Ancient Greek (Latinized) |