shake hands with the bishop
- shake hands with the bishop
(of a male)
to urinate
An uncircumcized penis may resemble the chess piece:
Help me to the toilet... I have to go and shake the bishop's "hand. (Theroux, 1979, quoting Borges)
Others may shake hands with their best friend, their wife's best friend, or, with melancholy humour, the unemployed or the unemployable.
In modern use, a female may shake the lettuce.
How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms.
R. W. Holder.
2014.
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