After You, Alphonse Definition
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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.
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Origin of After You, Alphonse
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Paraphrase of a quote from Alphonse and Gaston , an American comic strip by Frederick Burr Opper .
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