Robert is your uncle
English
Phrase
- Alternative form of Robert's your uncle.
- 1952, Carter Dickson [pseudonym; John Dickson Carr], chapter 4, in Behind the Crimson Blind: Another Adventure of Sir Henry Merrivale (Sir Henry Merrivale; 21), New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, →OCLC, pages 34–35:
- “You understand, Commandant,” he said darkly, “that your offence might have had serious consequences?” / “I do, sir.” / “Well!” said Duroc. “Then I forget it.” Yet his wrath boiled over. “But here is an end, Commandant. We will have no more of this, burn me, or Robert is your uncle!”
- 1967, Bernard Newman, chapter 5, in Draw the Dragon’s Teeth, London: Robert Hale, →OCLC, page 37:
- “[…] So I slips in and ’as a moniker at the safe. So when I takes you in, we ’ave the place to ourselves. I knows the safe, so—” He opened his hands expressively. / “So Robert is your uncle!” Pontivy finished the sentence for him.
- 1986 July 20, Hugh Leonard, “Hugh Leonard’s Log: A fourpenny rush of blood to the head”, in Sunday Independent, volume 86, number 29, Dublin, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9, column 3:
- TO Dun Laoghaire, to have photographs taken so that I may go by train through eastern Europe, come September. In the shopping centre, there is a booth which looks not unlike a confessional. You sit, put coins in a slot, and Robert is your uncle.