Huckleberry Hound
Nov. 12th, 2003 12:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
libertangoI was just listening to an .mp3 of "Moon River", sung by Audrey Hepburn. It was probably recorded off the Breakfast at Tiffany's DVD. And for the first time I noticed the phrase, "your huckleberry friend."
The first thing that reminded me of, of course, is Val Kilmer's Doc Holliday in Tombstone -- "I'm your huckleberry." (Insert appropriate bow of obeisance to Steve Brust here.)
Still, where did the phrase come from, and what the hell does it mean? According to a web-based article I found:
"To be one’s huckleberry—usually as the phrase I’m your huckleberry—is to be just the right person for a given job, or a willing executor of some commission."
Oh. OK.
The first thing that reminded me of, of course, is Val Kilmer's Doc Holliday in Tombstone -- "I'm your huckleberry." (Insert appropriate bow of obeisance to Steve Brust here.)
Still, where did the phrase come from, and what the hell does it mean? According to a web-based article I found:
"To be one’s huckleberry—usually as the phrase I’m your huckleberry—is to be just the right person for a given job, or a willing executor of some commission."
Oh. OK.
