Assertion: actress | /r/CapableOf | say to the bishop
Facets:
value: as an inappropriate joke
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: The term, or its variant "as the actress said to the bishop", is British in origin.
text: Kingsley Amis uses the line in his 1954 novel Lucky Jim, where a woman offering relationship advice to Jim Dixon says "I can't show you, as the actress said to the bishop.
text: In the original BBC version of The Office, Ricky Gervais's character David Brent frequently used the phrase "as the actress said to the bishop" as an inappropriate joke.