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单词 alphonse and gaston
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Alphonse and Gaston

or Alphonse-and-Gaston


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 through the doorway first.

Origin of Alphonse and Gaston

After the title characters of a cartoon strip by American cartoonist Frederick Burr Opper (1857–1937), which first appeared in 1905

Words nearby Alphonse and Gaston

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