YOU SAID:
I was knee-high to a grasshopper
INTO JAPANESE
私はバッタにひざまずいていた
BACK INTO ENGLISH
I was kneeling on the grasshopper.
INTO JAPANESE
私はバッタにひざまずいていた。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
I was kneeling on the grasshopper.
That didn't even make that much sense in English.