Bob's your uncle
Bob's your uncle everything is all right. Perhaps (although the phrase is not recorded until the 1930s) from the political advancement of Arthur James Balfour, nephew of the Conservative statesman Robert, Lord Salisbury, who became first Chief Secretary for Ireland and then (in 1902) Prime Minister.
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