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

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  i think....   [Angine     de   Poitrine]   seems a bit like
                [Agenbite   of   inwit]

  both result in acute (sensation of)   tightening of the chest/heart ? 



HenHanna@NewsGrouper <user4055@newsgrouper.org.invalid> posted:
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>    It was only 4(?) years ago that I learned 2 Brit expressions
>    [Bob's your uncle], and (((???)))
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> and one of my  3   fav Ling Youtubers  seems to be telling me that
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>     [Bob's your uncle]  is  actually American ??? 
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>         was it used by SH, Nabokov,  Joyce ?
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> >>>  No, "Bob’s your uncle" was never once used by Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes), Vladimir Nabokov, or James Joyce.
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> The absolute lack of this phrase across their collective works boils down to an issue of historical and geographic timelines: .................



          All is bob  --- I'd never heard of it.

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    Older British Slang Roots


Some etymologists point out that if the 1887 political scandal was the sole trigger, it shouldn't have taken until 1923 to show up in a newspaper. 

A deeper linguistic theory suggests it evolved from a 1700s British slang phrase, "All is bob," which was recorded in the 1785 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue and simply meant "all is well" or "safe and sound".

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