EPISODE · Aug 14, 2026 · 36 MIN

W9Y Has An Uncle Named Bob

from Whole 9 Yards: Idioms, Etymology, & Origins · host Big Science Pods

Episode 330: Jay & Ray, by and large, make sense out of idioms.bob's your uncleby & large heavens to Betsy call a spade a spadeLink to W.E.B. Dubois's powerful essay 'Returning Soldiers' written to the African-American soldiers returning from WWI.Snagglepuss (not Marvin Martian)Subscribe, review, and come find us on BlueSky, Insta, & FB.Big Science Music is an award-winning original music and sound boutique. Providing scoring, sound design, radio, podcast, and all audio-post production services for the advertising, film, and video industries. Grab a taste of the groove salad at bigsciencemusic.comsome of the W9Y sources include phrase finder uk, word wizard forums, etymology online, the OED, American Dictionary of Idioms, Wiki, newspapers.com, stackexchange, worldwidewords.

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