English Explanatory Dictionary

after you, Alphonse

English dictionary entry

Meanings

phrase
  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.

Word forms

after you, Alphonse

Etymology

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

Related words

Alphonse and Gaston after you
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