"Way back in 1988, Republicans derided the open field of Democratic presidential candidates as 'the Seven Dwarfs.' Any group of politicians taking on a sitting president must come to grips with the stature gap: the chief executive dominating the news from the Oval Office, Rose Garden or the commanding heights of Camp David seems larger than life."

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/06/opinion/the-seven-dwarfs.html