after you, Alphonse

短语

英文释义

短语
  1. An exchange indicating excessive formality or effort at politeness, particularly where two people each refuse to go forward because each insists on allowing the other to go forward first.
    — And two French sisters performed a delightful after-you-Alphonse routine when they came in first and second in the women's slalom, then took the same top places, in reversed order, in the giant slalom.

词源

Paraphrase of a line in Alphonse and Gaston, an American comic strip by Frederick Burr Opper.
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