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	Pronounced	Usage
Lungile	-	Southern African, Zulu
Ioannes	-	Biblical Greek
Ira (1)	IE-rə (English)	Biblical, English, Hebrew
Imrus	-	Hungarian
Swift	[swift]
Paulson	[pɔ:lsn]