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age before beauty

idiom
Meaning

A phrase said to allow older people to go before younger ones.


Examples
SIMPLE

Age before beauty, so please go through the door first.

CONTEXTUAL

As we reached the elevator, my grandfather gestured for me to enter, but I smiled and said, age before beauty.

COMPLEX

With a playful bow and a polite gesture toward the entrance, he insisted that age before beauty should be the rule of the day.

Anchors to
Related idioms8entries
  1. 01

    act one's age

    To behave in a manner appropriate to one's age.

  2. 02

    act one's age, not one's shoe size

    Synonym of act one's age (“to behave in a mature manner; to avoid being childish”).

  3. 03

    beauty queen

    The female winner of a beauty contest.

  4. 04

    beauty sleep

    Originally, sleep taken before midnight, on the belief that early sleep hours conduce to beauty and health; now (chiefly humorous), sleep at any time needed by one to stay beautiful; (countable) an instance of such sleep.

  5. 05

    come of age

    To reach a specific age where one is legally considered to be an adult.

  6. 06

    coon's age

    A very long time.

  7. 07

    day and age

    A time period of years or more.

  8. 08

    golden age

    A period of happiness, peace, prosperity, and great progress.

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