"I'm your huckleberry"
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eye found it 2011
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Wednesday, September 3, 2014
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Colorado, United States
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In the hands of MrundMrsTrümmerkönig.
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To be a daisy at traveling around the world from cache to cache spreading the joy of geocaching.
PLEASE DON"T KEEP ME.
~~"I'm your huckleberry"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8OWNspU_yE
People often speculate on the exact origin and meaning is of the quaint idiom used by Doc Holliday in the 1993 movie "Tombstone."
The more common usage came to mean, in the words of the "Dictionary of American Slang: Second Supplemented Edition" (Crowell, 1975):
"A man; specif., the exact kind of man needed for a particular purpose. 1936: "Well, I'm your huckleberry, Mr. Haney." Tully, "Bruiser," 37. Since 1880, archaic.
The "Historical Dictionary of American Slang" which is a multivolume work, has about a third of a column of citations documenting this meaning all through the latter 19th century.
So "I'm your huckleberry" means "I'm just the man you're looking for
Now ain't that a daisy!
The "Daisy" comment is easier. In the late 19th century "daisy" was a common slang term for "the best in it's class." So for "daisy" just substitute "the best" and you'll have it. It was a short-lived idiom and doesn't seem to be popular much after 1890.
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