"As the actress said to the bishop" nghĩa là gì?
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"As the actress said to the bishop" = như nữ diễn viên nói với vị giám mục -> câu nói hài hước để thêm hàm ý tình dục vào câu nói vô thưởng vô phạt.
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Taking a literal trip down memory lane (Margolyes aided (hỗ trợ) by a wheelchair, which she boastingly (khoe khoang) says means, “we can go as far as we like…as the actress said to the bishop”) both she and Paterson light up as they share tales from the set and delight in how the village is in a much better state now, than when they left it.
It’s a modern variation (biến thể) on an older, British saying, “As the actress said to the Bishop”, associated with Lillie Langtry and the Bishop of Worcester in the early 1900s.
If you come up with any clever solutions (giải pháp) to this problem, please feel free to give me one. As the actress said to the bishop being one of those lines where you probably assumed on balance of probability (có thể) that the bishop was a man, but she needn’t be.
Stumped for a setting sufficiently (thích đáng) rule-bound, they asked the TV producer Stuart Allen if he had any ideas. Thinking of the old joke, “as the actress said to the bishop”, Allen suggested they write about a bishop whose niece (cháu gái) is a stripper (nữ diễn viên thoát y).
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