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Bob's your uncle

phrase

And that's it, done.

Person 1"How do I reset it?"
Person 2"Hold the button, count to ten, and Bob's your uncle."

Where it's from

British, recorded from the 1930s. A popular story links it to Prime Minister Robert Cecil giving his nephew Arthur Balfour a top job in 1887, but there's no evidence for it.

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