Age before beauty, so please go through the door first.
age before beauty
idiomA phrase said to allow older people to go before younger ones.
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.
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act one's age
To behave in a manner appropriate to one's age.
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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”).
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beauty queen
The female winner of a beauty contest.
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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.
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come of age
To reach a specific age where one is legally considered to be an adult.
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coon's age
A very long time.
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day and age
A time period of years or more.
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golden age
A period of happiness, peace, prosperity, and great progress.