Nay you must name his name, and half his face must be seen through the lion’s neck, and he himself must speak through, saying thus, or to the same defect: …"If you think I come hither as a lion, it were pity of my life. No, I am no such thing; I am a man, as other men are" – and there indeed let him name his name, and tell them plainly he is Snug the joiner.
– William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 3, Scene 1. The lion in the play by the Mechanicals presents a problem. In order not to frighten the ladies, Bottom suggests another prologue that makes clear Snug is not a lion. In trying to explain himself drops another of his verbal clangers, one of his malapropisms – instead of saying "to the same effect" it comes out as "to the same defect." Clearly no one watching the play will be fooled into thinking that a pretend lion is the real thing. This episode is merely added for comic effect and to poke fun at the blundering Mechanicals.