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  2. Bob's your uncle - Wikipedia

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    A long version is Bob's your uncle and Fanny's your aunt. Versions sometimes spell "your" as "yer." Expressions with a stronger emphasis on easiness or delight: Piece of cake, an informal expression for something very easy. It's a doddle, another slang expression for something very easy or it's a cinch.

  3. As easy as pie - Wikipedia

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    As easy as pie" is a popular colloquial idiom and simile which is used to describe a task or experience as pleasurable and simple. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The phrase is often interchanged with piece of cake , which shares the same connotation.

  4. Glossary of early twentieth century slang in the United States

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    Easy going; jovial; cheerful e.g. One movie reviewer refer to the hero of a film A Stranger from Somewhere as a Breezy Westerner [53] brillo Someone who lives fast and is a big spender [5] broad. Main article: Woman. Expression used solely by men to refer to a woman and widely considered offensive by women [56] bronx cheer. Main article:Blowing ...

  5. Johnny Johnny Yes Papa - Wikipedia

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    As of 20 August 2020, a video containing the song, misspelt as "Johny" and uploaded to YouTube by Loo Loo Kids in 2016, [1] has more than 6.9 billion views as of January 2024, making it the third-most-viewed video on the site, as well as the most-viewed nursery rhyme video and one of the top 10 most-disliked YouTube videos.

  6. Easy peasy - Wikipedia

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    Easy peasy may refer to: EasyPeasy , a discontinued a Linux-based operating system for netbooks Abe Mosseri (born 1974), an American professional poker player also known by his online alias EazyPeazy

  7. Georgie Porgie - Wikipedia

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    And a Cheshire dialect version was quoted in 1887 with the variant "picklety pie" in place of Halliwell's "pumpkin pie". [ 5 ] But by 1884 a version had appeared in which the third line read "When the boys came out to play", [ 6 ] and it was this reading which Iona and Peter Opie chose to perpetuate in their day in The Oxford Dictionary of ...

  8. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    A proverbial phrase or expression is a type of conventional saying similar to a proverb and transmitted by oral tradition. The difference is that a proverb is a fixed expression, while a proverbial phrase permits alterations to fit the grammar of the context. [1] [2] In 1768, John Ray defined a proverbial phrase as:

  9. Pease Porridge Hot - Wikipedia

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    Today it is known as pease pudding, and was also known in Middle English as pease pottage. ("Pease" was treated as a mass noun, similar to "oatmeal", and the singular "pea" and plural "peas" arose by back-formation.) The earliest recorded version of "Pease Porridge Hot" is a riddle found in John Newbery's Mother Goose's Melody (c. 1760): [3]