"after you, Alphonse" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "Paraphrase of a quote from Alphonse and Gaston, an American comic strip by Frederick Burr Opper.",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "phrase",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1964 February 14, “Snow show goes off in big style”, in LIFE, volume 56, number 7, page 30",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Wendy Steiner, The Real Real Thing: The Model in the Mirror of Art, page 109",
          "text": "As this tortuous wording suggests, models and their reflections keep reversing in the mirror, in a sort of “after you, Alphonse—no, after you” exchange.",
          "type": "quotation"
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      "glosses": [
        "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."
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          "word": "Alphonse and Gaston"
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          "word": "after you"
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  "word": "after you, Alphonse"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Paraphrase of a quote from Alphonse and Gaston, an American comic strip by Frederick Burr Opper.",
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      "expansion": "after you, Alphonse",
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "Alphonse and Gaston"
    },
    {
      "word": "after you"
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        {
          "ref": "1964 February 14, “Snow show goes off in big style”, in LIFE, volume 56, number 7, page 30",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Wendy Steiner, The Real Real Thing: The Model in the Mirror of Art, page 109",
          "text": "As this tortuous wording suggests, models and their reflections keep reversing in the mirror, in a sort of “after you, Alphonse—no, after you” exchange.",
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        "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": "after you, Alphonse"
}