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These user-created lists contain the word ‘bob's your uncle’.
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Bob
He's everywhere.
bob, Bob, bobolink, nabob, bobbing, apple bobbing, Bob Dylan, ragtag and bobtail, plumb bob, kabob, discombobulate, earbob and 106 more...
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tom, dick and harry
merry andrew, spotted dick, black jack, lazy susan, bloody mary, charley horse, doubting thomas, willy nilly, jolly roger, peg leg, catherine wheel, charlotte russe and 156 more...
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spicolli's Words
terrapin, ravenous, fuck, sepulchral, garlic, suss, queer, curmudgeon, foodie, intricate, omphalos, subversion and 534 more...
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some words
phatic, macerate, amanuenses, theophagy, seraglio, gloaming, geophagy, metaphone, anastrophe, neologism, tetragrammaton, bête noire and 568 more...
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British Cant & Slang, Old & New
Mostly, the cant words come from my reprint of Francis Grose's 1785 dictionary of 'The Vulgar Tongue', while the more modern slang has been found at various online sources, e.g. this online diction...
bog-standard, bumbaclot, brown trouser moment, bingo wings, bobfoc, babber, sweating, tantadlin tart, taplash, timber toe, tray trip, twiddle-diddles and 209 more...
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fairacre's list
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The Inside Jokes
I and a select group of friends find these funny. Quite often it is a different friend each time.
octogenarian, schools of thought, yurt, zmay, jumbuck, stout old ladies, domkop, axolotl, citoyen, pertain, startling, enthralling and 52 more...
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For Pete's Sake
Names that appear in common phrases/clichès. (Also see sionnach's list, tom, dick and harry.)
adam's apple, jim crow, joe blow, bobby pin, nervous nellie, for pete's sake, jolly roger, john hancock, johnny-come-lately, suzie q, teddy bear, tommy gun and 81 more...
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phraseology
put a sock in it, you poltroon of a..., bob's your uncle, a wink's as good ..., clever trousers, que sera sera, he said she said, hot and bothered, filth flarn filth, fannie's your aunt, like fun you are, like a colt you are and 25 more...
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Words and phrases I picked up from my...
Mum loves a good cliche. I am finding that I mimic her with increasing regularity as I find audiences that don't know her or her own brand of broad Aussieness.
bob's your uncle, if your auntie ha..., dry as a limeburn..., like an owl peeri..., haven't they figu..., dry as a dead din..., cold as a witch's..., you catch more fl..., you can't make fi..., late for breakfast, jack robinson, fish and visitors and 49 more...
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british colloquialisms
slang dict
alright!, arty-farty, beer o'clock, big time, bin, bits and bobs, blighty, blimey, bob's your uncle, bolivian marching..., bolshie, catch you later! and 49 more...
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yarb Citation on if. Jul 1, 2008
john Mostly British and Commonwealth slang, means roughly "and you're all set." Good discussion of possible etymologies on World Wide Words. Oct 8, 2007