| 单词 | be a huckleberry to someone's persimmon |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be a huckleberry to (or over) someone's persimmon 4. In various phrases: to be someone's huckleberry: to be someone's sweetheart, friend, or partner; to be a huckleberry to (or over) someone's persimmon: a proverbial phrase (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > quality of being better or superior > [verb (intransitive)] to take wall1591 better1592 to take place1602 to be a huckleberry to (or over) someone's persimmon1832 the mind > emotion > love > a lover > be someone's sweetheart [verb (intransitive)] sweetheart1798 to be someone's huckleberry1880 the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > be friendly [verb (intransitive)] > be someone's sweetheart, friend, or partner to be someone's huckleberry1880 1832 J. K. Paulding Westward Ho! I. ix. 80 If the [broad-]horn gets broadside to the current, I wouldn't risk a huckleberry to a persimmon that we don't every soul get treed, and sink to the bottom. 1834 D. Crockett Narr. Life ix. 70 But to do this, and write the warrants too, was at least a huckleberry over my persimmon. 1856 W. G. Simms Eutaw 553 My larning ain't a huckleberry to your persimmon. 1880 A. A. Hayes New Colorado (1881) v. 68 The first words that we heard him speak settled his nationality, for..he sententiously remarked, ‘Hi'm 'is 'uckleberry.’ 1885 D. D. Porter Incidents Civil War 204 ‘I am the fleet-surgeon of the Mississippi squadron!’..‘I'm a huckleberry above that persimmon, 'cause I'm the chief cook.’ 1889 J. S. Farmer Americanisms (at cited word) ‘The persimmon above one's huckleberry’,..an avowal of disbelief in one's ability to perform..a given task or undertaking. 1926 N. N. Puckett in Opportunity Mar. 84/2 Sir, you is a huckleberry beyon' my persimmon. 1936 J. Tully Bruiser (1946) 37 Well, I'm your huckleberry, Mr. Haney. 1951 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xv. 56 I'll be your huckleberry. to be a huckleberry to (also over) someone's persimmon Categories » P1. Chiefly U.S. colloquial and regional. to be a huckleberry to (also over) someone's persimmon: see huckleberry n. 4. < as lemmas |
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