Okay, Brits, a question: What the heck does "Bob's your uncle" mean?!?!?
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When you're trying to do something and you can't figure it out, and someone explains it to you, they can say to you; you do it like this, and Bob's your uncle, so it basically means that this is how it's done!
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Here is a possible answer:\nhttp://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/6/messages/952.html
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Its the same reason people call Robert Bob for short...\n\nMakes no sense whatsoever...
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He is a classic british guy ...What else do you expect for?\n\n:D
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What the heck does that mean?
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It means you a wimp, a softie, a pushover, a pu$$y, a wuss.  It doesn't mean gay.  Why would people say that???  \n\nWhen it is used to refer directly to girl's butt (such as when a boy is using slang to flirt with a girl, like "let me get some of that candyass")--that's when it means nice booty, or sweet stuff (in a sexual and flirtatious way).\n\nhope this helps :)
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Ahm of the unmentioned categoray, "D", tha' one called "Whit Are Ye Mollachin Aboot?"  In honor of ma Scottish ancest'ray and the peskay moles a'bothren ma golf bawls, ahm makin this categoray, by-the-way.\n  \nBas'cally: Ah's won'dren round tha' loch and spewin' bawls left o' right, no aim en mind, a true n auld nae worth a docken.  "Awa ye go!", ye say, boot aye tells tha' truth, ah doo.  Doon ye think ahm aff?   Eh, well, piss on ye.
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I don't know, but I can guess- it looks like a contraction. Written out with spaces in it, it is 'You no gaw no'- just add an 'n', it becomes 'You no gawn no'; then, 'You no gawn know.' Finally, 'You are not going to know', or 'You will not know (this thing)'.\n\nObviously it's slang- I imagine that you might use if someone asks you a question that you don't want to answer in order to annoy the person asking you.\n\n"What do you have in the bag there?"\n\n"Younogawno, fool!"\n\nThat's the best I can do... I'd be interested if it meant anything very different than that though.
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Britishers? Is that even a word?
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I am British and the word, (bloody) over there is used just like the word: damn. Example: Tell those bloody kids to shut up! But I don't know what, sodding means.
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Wow, the German is awful. I tried to translate but none of it made sense after the bit about time.\n\nThe intended joke is even worse, you sure they didn't steal that from one of the papers.\n\nWere your great aunt and uncle forced out by Arnie? Please give details.
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It's just a comic acronym for the government of the UNited States of AMerica ! \n...Since the government is always asking its soldiers to go somewhere, fetch something, or do some of its own (dirty !) work, just as any biological uncle probably would, the 'boys' had coined this nick !
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lmao !  thx goodness for uncle terry !! lol
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Good answer above.  \n\nIn the UK we have used "as queer as a nine bob note". This was before decimilisation and there was no such thing as a nine bob note.
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I'm not sure what it means, but I think it is something rude! I put it in google and I found it in some jokes about Turks.\n\nI will link to these sites where if you post you are likely to get an answer quickly.
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This is the first time I've ever heard this version of the joke. I don't know what this is right here, but it makes absolutely no sense. \n\nThere were three guys walking down the street and ran acroos this farm house. The lady said they could stay in the house and have breakfast in the morning but if not they had to stay in the barn. \n\nWHY would they have to stay in the barn?? What were the guys suppose to do in order to stay in the house???\n\nI cannot express this enough; when posting a joke, write it correctly.
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Sticky wicket generally means "A difficult situation". \n\nThis phrase is being used in cricket also. After rain, the ground becomes soft and the ball bounces more erratically, making it more difficult for the batsman. Hence a sticky wicket, in full to bat on a sticky wicket. To be on one, figuratively speaking, is to experience great difficulty.\n\n"Bob's your Uncle" 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’s known mainly in Britain and Commonwealth countries, and is really a kind of interjection. It’s used to show how simple it is to do something: “You put the plug in here, press that switch, and Bob’s your uncle!”.\n\nThe most attractive theory—albeit suspiciously neat—is that it derives from a prolonged act of political nepotism. The Victorian prime minister, Lord Salisbury (family name Robert Cecil, pronounced ) appointed his rather less than popular nephew Arthur Balfour to a succession of posts. The most controversial, in 1887, was chief secretary of Ireland, a post for which Balfour—despite his intellectual gifts—was considered unsuitable. The Dictionary of National Biography says: “The country saw with something like stupefaction the appointment of the young dilettante to what was at the moment perhaps the most important, certainly the most anxious office in the administration”. As the story goes, the consensus among the irreverent in Britain was that to have Bob as your uncle was a guarantee of success, hence the expression. Since the very word nepotism derives from the Italian word for nephew (from the practice of Italian popes giving preferment to nephews, a euphemism for their bastard sons), the association here seems more than apt.\n\nActually, Balfour did rather well in the job, confounding his critics and earning the bitter nickname Bloody Balfour from the Irish, which must have quietened the accusations of undue favouritism more than a little (he also rose to be Prime Minister from 1902–5). There is another big problem: the phrase isn’t recorded until 1937, in Eric Partridge’s Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English. Mr Partridge suggested it had been in use since the 1890s, but nobody has found an example in print. This is surprising. If public indignation or cynicism against Lord Salisbury’s actions had been great enough to provoke creation of the saying, why didn’t it appear—to take a case—in a satirical magazine of the time such as Punch?\n\nA rather more probable, but less exciting, theory has it that it derives from the slang phrase all is bob, meaning that everything is safe, pleasant or satisfactory. This dates back to the seventeenth century or so (it’s in Captain Francis Grose’s Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue of 1785). There have been several other slang expressions containing bob, some associated with thievery or gambling, and from the eighteenth century on it was also a common generic name for somebody you didn’t know. Any or all of these might have contributed to its genesis.