query grasshopper mind familiar english collocation grasshopper mind first saw listed translation equivalent _ utsurigi _ fickleness caprice kenkyusha new japanese english dictionary 4th ed 1974 found exemplifying adjectival _ grasshopper _ frivolous kenkyusha new english japanese dictionary 5th ed 1980 since grasshopper figuratively means flighty improvident person grasshopper mind metaphorically apt free combination occurring three times cobuilddirect online corpus standard collocation requiring lexicographical treatment none english monolingual dictionaries checked enters combination closest oxford english dictionary 2nd ed 1989 mind travelled grasshoppered usage example however roget thesaurus longman 1982 includes grasshopper mind v _ changeable thing _ _ inattention _ english language reference works enter grasshopper mind first recorded varietal dialectal term analogous grasshoppery words languages answer questions please contact directly post summary linguist michael carr otaru university commerce otaru 047 japan email carr canal otaruuc ac jp fax 81 13422 0467