"Bob's your uncle" info

[Fred Shapiro]

The earliest citation in OED for "Bob's your uncle" is Partridge (1937).
Where there is such a gap between the supposed event giving rise to the
term and the earliest known evidence for the term, I would be somewhat
skeptical as to whether the event really gave rise to the term.

Fred Shapiro


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