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[Bob's your uncle] is actually American ???

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   It was only 4(?) years ago that I learned 2 Brit expressions
   [Bob's your uncle], and (((???)))

and one of my  3   fav Ling Youtubers  seems to be telling me that
 

    [Bob's your uncle]  is  actually American ??? 



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        was it used by SH, Nabokov,  Joyce ?


>>>  No, "Bob’s your uncle" was never once used by Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes), Vladimir Nabokov, or James Joyce.

The absolute lack of this phrase across their collective works boils down to an issue of historical and geographic timelines: .................

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[Bob's your uncle]  is  actually American ???  HenHanna@NewsGrouper <user4055@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-05-31 20:47 +0000
  Re: [Bob's your uncle]  is  actually American ??? "HenHanna" <HenHanna@Posting.from.CsiPh> - 2026-05-31 20:51 +0000
    Re: [Bob's your uncle] is actually American ??? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-06-01 10:12 +1000

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