| "Bob's your uncle" means that everything is taken care of for you—you're all set, you've got it made. The expression apparently dates back to 1887 when the original "Uncle Bob"—British Prime Minister Lord Salisbury—made his nephew (Arthur Balfour) Irish Secretary in a move that reeked of nepotism. But nowadays the expression has lost its early connotations, and anyhow I use it mainly (as BYU) in place of QED to indicate that a theorem has been nailed. |