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Early appearance of "Bob's your uncle" in print, an advertisement in the Dundee Evening Telegraph on 19 June 1924 "Bob's your uncle" is an idiom commonly used in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth countries that means "and there it is", or "and there you have it", or "it's done". Typically, someone says it to conclude a set of simple ...
The British phrase 'Bob's your uncle' is thought to have derived from Robert Cecil's appointment of his nephew, Arthur Balfour, as Chief Secretary for Ireland. [ 76 ] Fort Salisbury (now Harare) was named in honour of him when it was founded in September 1890.
The Marquess of Salisbury, who was Prime Minister for three separate occasions from 1885 to 1902 for a total of approximately 14 years, appointed his nephew Arthur Balfour as Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1887 and later as Prime Minister in 1902. This is supposedly the origin of the phrase "Bob's your uncle". [135]
Bob's Your Uncle (Chinese: 煮家男人) (born 18 June 1981), known as Uncle Bob (Chinese: Bob叔), is a Hong Kong YouTuber who makes videos about cooking and travelling. As a teenage student, he travelled to the United Kingdom for schooling. Uncle Bob started to learn to cook after he found the Chinese restaurants he visited to be unappetising.
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
Because I’d blocked her and the rest of my family—parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, nieces, and all but one nephew—on Facebook and on my phone. Donald Trump was unapologetically racist and ...
The Bob Monkhouse Show (1983–86) Bob's Full House (1984–90) Bob Says Opportunity Knocks (1987–89) The $64,000 Question (UK version of The 64,000 Dollar Question) (1989, 1990–93) Bob's Your Uncle (1991–92) All or Nothing at All (1993) Gagtag (team captain, then host) (1994–1996) An Audience With Bob Monkhouse (1994) Bob Monkhouse On ...
Bob Odenkirk learns he's related to King Charles III in 'Finding Your Roots.' Watch the moment his ties to a duke also tied him to the monarchy.