as the actress said to the bishop
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as the actress said to the bishop
- (UK, humorous) Used to highlight a sexual ambiguity in an innocent remark.
- Heavens, that's a big one – as the actress said to the bishop.
- 1976, David Widgery, The Left in Britain:
- The important thing was where you do it, not what you do (as the actress said to the bishop)
- 1998, Timothy White, The Entertainers: portraits of stardom in the twentieth century:
- "Oh, well," offered Andrews wryly, as she peeled a piece of fruit, "nothing like a hot banana — as the actress said to the bishop." She then apologized for the tacky sexual quip, explaining, "It just slipped out — as the actress said to the bishop."
- 1999, Michael Sprinker, Ghostly demarcations: a symposium on Jacques Derrida's Spectres of Marx:
- He has, as the actress said to the bishop, been an unconscionably long time coming, […]