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Bob's your father's brother
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phr Bob's your father's brother
en Bob's your uncle.
en 1995 June Dr Spanner’s Bits ‘n’ PCs David Upchurch PC Games London EMAP Images 107 https://archive.org/details/pcgames-11/page/n106/mode/1up 1351-0290 264998415 No need to faff around with books and all that malarkey. Just slap the disc into the drive, boot up Windows, and Bob’s your father’s brother. Welcome to the world of easy information.
en 24 September 1996 w:Colin Dexter 20 w:Death Is Now My Neighbour w:Inspector Morse 12 London Macmillan 112 https://archive.org/details/deathisnowmyneig0000dext_s6t6/page/112/mode/1up 0-333-67570-3 He’s got a key to Number 1 – he’s in there when she drives off – he walks along the back of the terrace – shoots Rachel James – goes back to Number 1 – rings up his own office number – waits for the answerphone pips – probably doesn’t say anything – just keeps the line open for a minute or two – and Bob’s your father’s brother.
en 2011 w:Susan Hill 21 The Betrayal of Trust Simon Serrailler 6 London w:Chatto & Windus 123–124 https://archive.org/details/betrayaloftrust0000hill_p9a9/page/124/mode/1up 978-0-701-18002-7 I mean, what are the chances of us having money to throw at that sort of job at the moment? This isn’t someone walking down the high street, same as they walked down it last Friday . . . cordon off an area, get a match for the person, couple of cameras, Bob’s your father’s brother.