{"id":3987,"date":"2006-01-13T07:14:26","date_gmt":"2006-01-13T07:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=3987"},"modified":"2006-01-13T07:14:26","modified_gmt":"2006-01-13T07:14:26","slug":"and-bobs-your-uncle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2006\/01\/and-bobs-your-uncle\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;and Bob&#8217;s your Uncle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwidewords.org\/index.htm\" class=\"external external_icon\">World Wide Words<\/a> gives insight into those kooky british phrases of which I&#8217;ve become quite fond.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blocked\"> <strong>[Q]<\/strong> From Florence C Goold: &#8220;What is the origin and actual meaning of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwidewords.org\/qa\/qa-bob1.htm\" class=\"external external_icon\">bob&#8217;s your uncle<\/a>?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>[A]<\/strong> This is a catchphrase which seemed to arise out of nowhere and yet has had a long period of fashion and is still going strong. It&#8217;s known mainly in Britain and Commonwealth countries, and is really a kind of interjection. It&#8217;s used to show how simple it is to do something: &#8220;You put the plug in here, press that switch, and Bob&#8217;s your uncle!&#8221;.<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwidewords.org\/qa\/qa-bob1.htm\" class=\"external external_icon\">full meaning<\/a>) <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Wide Words gives insight into those kooky british phrases of which I&#8217;ve become quite fond. [Q] From Florence C Goold: &#8220;What is the origin and actual meaning of bob&#8217;s your uncle?&#8221; [A] This is a catchphrase which seemed to arise out of nowhere and yet has had a long period of fashion and is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}