When Scrooge gives his housekeeper a Christmas bonus and
increases her wages to ten shillings a week, she runs down the stairs exclaiming in joy, "Bob's your uncle!" This phrase commemorates British Prime Minister Robert Cecil's appointment of his unqualified nephew, Arthur Balfour, as the Chief Secretary of Ireland, in 1887.
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