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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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Paraphrase of a line in Alphonse and Gaston, an American comic strip by Frederick Burr Opper.
