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单词 alphonse and gaston
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Alphonse and Gaston in American English

adjective
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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