- Joined
- May 12, 2010
- Location
- Now Florida but always a Kentuckian
knee-high to a splinter. Very young, because the height mentioned is always in a sentence similar to " I knew him when he was knee-high to a splinter". Also popular during the war was "knee-high to a toad".
From "The Language of the Civil War" by John D. Wright page 170.
From "The Language of the Civil War" by John D. Wright page 170.