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Robert is your uncle
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en Robert's your uncle.
en 1952 Carter Dickson pseudonym; John Dickson Carr 4 Behind the Crimson Blind: Another Adventure of Sir Henry Merrivale Sir Henry Merrivale 21 New York, N.Y. w:William Morrow and Company 34–35 https://books.google.com/books?id=Gm9DAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Robert+is+your+uncle%22 42993368 “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!”
en 1967 Bernard Newman 5 Draw the Dragon’s Teeth London Robert Hale 37 https://archive.org/details/drawdragonsteeth0000bern/page/37/mode/1up 30285141 “1 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.
en 20 July 1986 w:Hugh Leonard Hugh Leonard’s Log: A fourpenny rush of blood to the head Sunday Independent 86 29 Dublin 9 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/1051850668/ 3 0039-5218 14115274 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.