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Bob's your uncle and Fanny's your aunt
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en 2 August 1972 Arthur Mason Ol’ Magic Fingers: Karloff Was ‘Nicest Gent of Them All’ Oregon Journal Portland, Ore. section 2 (Home and Family) 1 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/1094058549/ 2 12429059 Vera introduced us, and Boris was interested to hear I was a masseur. He mentioned that he had gotten a massage several times a week when he was in Hollywood—so, before you could say “Bob’s your uncle and Fanny’s your aunt,” yours truly offered the man who had made more people shiver and shake than any man alive a massage on the house.
en 1993 w:Lynne Reid Banks The Hare and the Vampire The Magic Hare New York, N.Y. Morrow Junior Books 19 https://archive.org/details/magichare00bank/page/19/mode/1up 0-688-10895-4 The magic hare, of course, didn’t have to bother with all this. If he wanted to go somewhere, he just wished himself there, and Bob’s your uncle and Fanny’s your aunt, there he was.
en 1996 Steve Harris Billy-Joe’s Demise Black Rock London Victor Gollancz 197 https://archive.org/details/blackrock0000harr/page/197/mode/1up 0 575 06140 5 Pack your bags, take ’em outside and if Billy-Joe wakes up when you go for the keys, just tell him you wanted to go to the chip-shop because you couldn’t be bothered to cook tonight. He’ll believe that and give you the keys, you go outside, unlock the car, put the bags in and drive off. Bob’s your uncle and Fanny’s your aunt. No problem, as they say in Europe.
en 1999 w:Jamie Oliver Mascarpone Cream w:The Naked Chef London Michael Joseph “Desserts” section 201 https://archive.org/details/nakedchef0000oliv_d4d2/page/201/mode/1up 0-718-14360-4 Now this is a ‘naughty but nice’ cream. It is great on the side with baked fruit, but also useful as a filling for those last-minute fruit tarts. Just fill a pastry case with it, cover with fruit, give it a quick glaze if you like (1 tablespoon jam and 1 tablespoon water warmed in a pan) and Bob’s your uncle and Fanny’s your aunt.