Mutt and Jeff
noun
a very short and a very tall person who are paired as companions, teammates, or associates.
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Origin of Mutt and Jeff
First recorded in 1915–20; after the characters in a cartoon strip of the same name created by U.S. cartoonist Harry C. “Bud” Fisher (1885–1954)
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Mutt and Jeff
comic strip characters Augustus Mutt and Jim Jeffries, in U.S. cartoonist Henry Conway ("Bud") Fisher's strip, which debuted in 1907. Used allusively from 1917 in reference to "a pair of stupid men, affable losers," or to one tall (Mutt) and one short (Jeff).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper