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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—P

Place aux Dames

Make way for the ladies; give place to the ladies; the ladies first, if you please. Indirectly it means women beat the men hollow in every contest.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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