as the actress said to the bishop

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(deprecated template usage) as the actress said to the bishop

  1. (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)
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    • 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, […]

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