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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.
Bob's your uncle "there you go", "it's that simple". [37] (Some areas of US have the phrase Bob's your uncle, Fanny's your aunt) bod a person [38] [39] bodge a cheap or poor (repair) job, can range from inelegant but effective to outright failure. e.g. "You properly bodged that up" ("you really made a mess of that").
I wonder if the source might be Cockney rhyming slang. The WP article mentions the longer version "Bob's your uncle and Fanny's your aunt." Given my understanding of rhyming slang, the "aunt" could rhyme with something related to the meaning such as "can't" or "shan't". Fool4jesus 18:48, 26 September 2023 (UTC)
Bob's Yer Uncle (band), an alternative rock band in Chicago, IL USA; Bob's Your Uncle (band), a late-1980s alternative rock group in Canada "Bob's Yer Uncle", a song by the band Happy Mondays from their album Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches "Bop's Your Uncle", a bebop composition by British jazz pianist George Shearing
The British English expression "Bob's your uncle" is thought to have originated when Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, promoted his nephew, Arthur Balfour, to the esteemed post of Chief Secretary for Ireland, which was widely seen as an act of nepotism. [15]
Fanny were the first all-female rock band to release a major-label album and score a top 40 single, yet they’ve been the victims of almost total erasure.
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RIP uncle Bob. Aunt Kathie been waiting for u. I’ll love & miss u both and live for us all.” ... It took a guy named Uncle Bob, he ran up there and when he got to the top of the steps and saw ...