A grey fabric-covered dress form on a metal stand is draped with a lilac scarf against purple.

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Bernadette

That’s just what this country needs: a cock in a frock on a rock.

— The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert • 1994

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The rhyming sequence turns a performer in a dress on a rock into a blunt theatrical joke. Its vulgar characterisation belongs to the speaker, rather than a judgment endorsed about people who wear dresses.

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