I'm your huckleberry

English Etymology en, but dates to the late nineteenth century in the United States. Compare en huckleberry little consequence in the sense "person of little consequence", or the idiom en huckleberry above a persimmon. Phrase phr en dated informal US I am your partner; I will join you; I will work with you; I will fight you; I will dance with you. en April 16, 1879 Joseph Cook Ultimate America Puck https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=iau.31858045535980 84 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.” en 1907 Edwin Lefevre Sampson Rock of Wall Street: A Novel http://www.worldcat.org/title/sampson-rock-of-wall-street-a-novel/oclc/3060951 177 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. en 1927 Walter Nobel Burns Tombstone: An Iliad of the Southwest 138 https://books.google.com/books?id=AOMTAAAAYAAJ&q=huckleberry 83132631 Holliday took a quick step toward him. “I’m your huckleberry, Ringo,” replied the cheerful doctor. “That’s just my game.”