Bob is your uncle

English

Phrase

Bob is your uncle

  1. Alternative form of Bob's your uncle.
    • 1986, Jack Scott, chapter 17, in A Knife Between the Ribs (Alf Rosher; 10), London: The Crime Club, →ISBN, page 149:
      Every year, towards the end of the festival week, he stages a barbecue. One pound fifty a go. Most of the dancing and folk-singing people attend, by now it is almost traditional. His two or three instructors stand by, and those who fancy a flip pay on the spot and Bob is your uncle. Quite profitable.
    • 1986, Jean Gregory, chapter 12, in Love Beyond All Telling, London: Corgi Books, →ISBN, page 228:
      You tell those kids, you say to them, I don’t see so good no more, I need you to do things for me, and Bob is your uncle! They are only too happy. They are not bad children; only they have to know what is wrong.
    • 1991, Tom Elder, “Leave without Absence”, in The Elder Tree: Memorabilia of a Traditional Tyneside Family, Edinburgh: The Pentland Press Ltd, →ISBN, page 99:
      Of course the real enthusiast makes his own orderly room date stamp. One needs to be reasonably efficient at lino cuttings. (I was taught it by our handicraft instructor.) A variable date stamp cost 5/6 at any Smiths and when fitted into your lino cut, Bob is your uncle.
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