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I'm your huckleberry

I'm your huckleberry phrase: i am your partner; I will join you; I will work with you; I will fight you; I will dance with you.

Phrase

I'm your huckleberry

  1. (US, dated, informal) I am your partner; I will join you; I will work with you; I will fight you; I will dance with you.
    • The other day, while enjoying a social game of seven-up with that pure and gentle poet, Jim Lowell, I said, “Jim, let’s take a drink.” Tears bedimmed his gentle and pure orbs, as in faltering accents he replied: “I’m your huckleberry.”1879 April 16, Joseph Cook, “Ultimate America”, in Puck, page 84
    • See here, if you want me to go into this or any other deal with you, I’m with you to the limit. If you don’t, and you just wish me to go along as your private secretary and professor of wisdom-toothing, I’m your huckleberry, and I’ll pay my own board-bills besides.1907, Edwin Lefevre, Sampson Rock of Wall Street: A Novel, page 177

Origin of I'm your huckleberry

Uncertain, but dates to the late nineteenth century in the United States. Compare huckleberry in the sense "person of little consequence", or the idiom huckleberry above a persimmon.

Questions about I'm your huckleberry

What does I'm your huckleberry mean?
I'm your huckleberry means i am your partner; I will join you; I will work with you; I will fight you; I will dance with you.
What part of speech is I'm your huckleberry?
I'm your huckleberry is a phrase.

Words near I'm your huckleberry in the dictionary

  1. I'm thirsty
  2. I'm tired
  3. I'm twenty years old
  4. I'm using tilt controls!
  5. I'm worried
  6. I'm your huckleberry
  7. i'm'a
  8. I'm-a
  9. i'ma
  10. I'mma
  11. I'mn't

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