单词 | alphonse and gaston |
释义 | Alphonse and Gaston in American Englishadjective marked by a ritualistic courtliness in which two often competing participants graciously but stubbornly defer to each other a kind of Alphonse and Gaston act in which each man insisted the other go throughthe doorway first Also: Alphonse-and-Gaston Word origin [after the title characters of a cartoon strip by American cartoonist Frederick BurrOpper (1857–1937), which first appeared in 1905] |
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