The term Bob's Your Uncle is usually used to express something that is resolved in your favour without much effort, such as “Just complete the application and Bob's your uncle”. The idiom was in regular use in Britain from the 1890s and comes from the advancement, in 1886, of Arthur Balfour to Secretary of State for Ireland. Balfour was a shock choice for the role and few saw him as qualified. But when it got around that he was the nephew of Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Third Marquis of Salisbury, the joke went around that, if Robert was your uncle, the deed was as good as done.