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i'll be a monkey's uncle 

This idiom is used to express complete surprise, amazement or disbelief.
e.g. Bob: Hey, there was a news article about an alien spaceship having entered the earth's atmosphere!
Harry: Well, i'll be a monkey's uncle!

Drunker than a Monkey's Uncle 

A step beyond Cooter Brown.
Look at her! She's way past Cooter Brown! She's drunker than a Monkey's Uncle!

son of a monkey's uncle 

an expression of frustration, anger, disappointment
"Son of a monkey's uncle! This tape wont work!"

I’ll be a monkey’s uncle 

The speaker is so certain of a claim that if he is wrong, he will allow a negro to inseminate his sister.
If I can’t finish this keg stand, I’ll be a monkey’s uncle.

the monkey's his uncle moment 

When someone explains a family related event with a lot of excitement but the other person doesnt really get the complicated family relations. who was the auntie, uncle cousin,nephew etc etc??

a phrase by timon in The Lion King when Timon fails to understand that simba has returned to challenge Scar.
sara: Im sorry which uncle was it? Thats alota family crap and im kinda in the monkey's his uncle moment.
Cigarette: Northern slang for a cigarette, used oft by mashed up mancunian ravers becasue of the resemblance of a hot(electric)stove to the end of a lit cigarette. Originated circa 1991 in the early halcyon days of the rave culture; we speculate during a drug fuelled hallucination by said manc.
'fuck me noel, i am bolloxed, is that a ciggy in your mouth, or the stove from me 'nans kitchen'/
General use: 'Give us a stove you cunt'
stove by anthony willison March 18, 2004
Word of the Day on August 4, 2026