Hi,
What is the meaning of" When is a bottom changed into an ass" in the following text?
"I already said way too much. Booze talking. "
"Can't you tell me something? Anything? To at least point me the right way?"
Shirley hesitated and then looked at the ruined trailer and then back at Annabelle.
"Okay. But you'll have to think about it real good. "
"All right"
"When is a bottom changed into an ass?"
Annabelle immediately looked puzzled. "What?"
Shirley let out a drunken giggle. "Like I said, you think about it. When is a bottom changed into an ass?...….."
I don't have enough context from you to know what they are talking about, but the allusion is to a play by Shakespeare. In A Midsummer's Night's Dream, a character called Bottom is turned into an *** (ie a donkey)..
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I don't have enough context from you to know what they are talking about, but the allusion is to a play by Shakespeare.
In A Midsummer's Night's Dream, a character called Bottom is turned into an *** (ie a donkey)..