As the actress said to the bishop
Posted by John sword on October 13, 2001
In Reply to: As the actress said to the bishop posted by Heidi on February 22, 2000
Miss Margot Charlton at the Oxford English Dictionary Word and Language
Service [OWLS]advises me as follows:
"I very much doubt that anyone can claim exact knowledge of tghe
origin ..... the earliest example we have discovered ..... dates
from 1935, but it is highly likely that the phrase was used in speech
long before this written version appeared".
The writtn version referred to is noted in the 20-volume OED as
from Saint in New York by Leslie Charteris.
The definition of the phrase is: a catch-phrase mischievously implying
a sexual innuendo in a preceeding remark.
- As the actress said to the bishop john sword 10/13/01