[lit-ideas] Re: Bob's Your Uncle (Was: The 3rd Marquess ofSalisbury)
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 16:32:29 -0700
on 5/4/04 1:11 PM, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx at Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx wrote:
The OED provides no etymology,
> Bob's (bob's) your uncle: everything is all right.
>
> and three quotes -- below. Spender's description of the expression as a
> 'cockney' phrase suggests it may be a vestige of 'truncated' [Cockney]
> (rhyming)
> slang?
>
The reference is from a popular history, without footnotes: Andrew Sholl,
"Bloomers, Biros and Wellington Boots; How the Names Became Words" (Past
Times Press, 1998, or M. O'Mara Books, 1996)
David Ritchie
Portland, Oregon
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