出典:Wiktionary
出典:『Wiktionary』 (2025/08/18 20:31 UTC 版)
Uncertain or disputed. Goldman (1950) suggests that beat the bishop comes from a resemblance of the penis to a bishop’s miter; Partridge (7th ed., 1970) likewise derives bash the bishop from a resemblance to the Staunton bishop chess piece. Other sources, such as Green, suggest that assonance of bishop with bash, beat, bop etc. may have given rise to the phrase as a type of word play.
bash the bishop (third-person singular simple present bashes the bishop, present participle bashing the bishop, simple past and past participle bashed the bishop)