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n. (context idiomatic English) A random assortment of things; small remaining pieces and things.
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Bits and Bobs is a children's television programme which is produced and broadcast by the BBC. It is aired on CBeebies (both the separate channel and CBeebies on BBC One and BBC Two). The show is filmed at several notable Scottish attractions and locations.
It features two balls of fluff: Bits and Bobs who live and travel in a "car" called Trug (which, according to the theme tune, created Bits and Bobs after escaping from a toy factory). Using Trug's eyepiece they explore the world and try to work out what different items are. They have the catchphrase "If I don't know and you don't know, and you don't know and I don't know; do you know?". Another phrase that is used is mentioned during sped up footage of them travelling to their next destination "Hold onto your Bobs, Bits" and vice versa.
They continuously nose each other by rubbing their noses. At the bottom of Trug is a secret compartment where Bits and Bobs keep their most prized objects. They access this compartment with a crane fueled by sugar cubes.
Bits and Bobs also is English slang for a collection of small items too numerous or varied to name individually. It originated from carpenters' tool kits containing parts for a drill, with bits used for making holes while bobs are routing or screwdriving drill attachments. Children laugh at the balls' mistakes at the end.
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Usage examples of "bits and bobs".
And you really weren't anybody if you didn't possess, at the very least, a Wesleyan chapel with all its bits and bobs intact, that you had painstakingly tortured into a design studio, complete with en suite bathrooms, fitted kitchen and solarium.
Shredded Eddie flew in every direction: a cascade of arms and legs and belly and bits and bobs.
So complete, however, was the Empire's collection of holy bits and bobs that it very nearly constituted a full set.
But put all the innocent-seeming bits and bobs together, and you can get something really nasty.
Even if that meant having their sleep interrupted by props heaving and bumping bits and bobs in and out of the holds at all hours.
Ive been sending requests all over the city for dubious bits and bobs, probably going to end up with loads of horrible disease-riddled jackdaws, and theres a fucking garuda on the doorstep!
He'd know a lot about us, and not just from the bits and bobs we'd left behind, though those would help.
Not what you'd call a finished cut, as there's a few bits and bobs that need trimming.
Well, think of all the screws and nails, the hinges and bits and bobs that are absolutely integral to the building alone!
If truth be told, his own bits and bobs looked rather small and out of place in the great old house, crowded as it was with treasures and trophies from generations of Deathstalkers, but he wouldn't admit that to anyone but Kit.