| 单词 | after you is manners |
| 释义 | > as lemmasafter you is manners a. after you is manners and variants: a polite formula used (frequently humorously or self-consciously) in yielding precedence. Cf. after you at Phrases 4b. Now rare. ΚΠ 1580 A. Saker Narbonus 90 The common saying is: after you is maners. 1650 R. Heath Epigrams 33, in Clarastella Oh! after him is manners. a1652 R. Brome Queen & Concubine iii. vii. 61 in Five New Playes (1659) Cur. Wilt thou be a Scholar? Andr. After you is manners. Cur. Now by mine intellect, discreetly spoken. 1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 42 After you is good Manners. Spoken when our Betters offer to serve us first. 1798 J. O'Keeffe Czar Peter iii. ii, in Dramatic Wks. III. 192 Stop, friend! after me is manners. 1849 Southern Cross (Auckland, N.Z.) 16 Oct. ‘Come, then, you begin.’ ‘No, you.’ ‘After you is manners.’ 1899 R. Whiteing No. 5 John St. xiv. 139 I remember the fine-company style of Tildor's tea-party, ‘After you's manners’, whenever we passed the plate. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses 472 (He stands aside at the threshold.) After you is good manners. < as lemmas |
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