that's what she said

First attested in the early 20th century. She refers to the speaker's imagined sexual partner.

• "Coordinate term: that's what he said"
• "Arthur: "That assignment took me all week to finish. It was so long and hard." Bob: "That's what she said.""
• "Some seemed bored and irritated by the priapic yahooism and overwillingness of peers to read a sexual double entendre into the most innocuous remark. "No matter what you say," said one student, "someone is going to respond with ‘That's what she said.’ ""
• "So this morning we pulled up a pumpkin-pancake recipe on the kitchen laptop. Just one problem: My wife couldn't read it from where she was mixing. "Can't you make it bigger?" she asked. (Go ahead, insert your own "that's what she said" joke here. No class.)"

• as the actress said to the bishop
• get one's mind out of the gutter
• I hardly know her
• innuendo
• I've never heard it called that before
• nudge nudge wink wink