Idiom
age before beauty
Meaning
A phrase said to allow older people to go before younger ones.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Age before beauty, so please go through the door first.”
“As we reached the elevator, my grandfather gestured for me to enter, but I smiled and said, age before beauty.”
“With a playful bow and a polite gesture toward the entrance, he insisted that age before beauty should be the rule of the day.”
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.”
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