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After You

Meaning

after you

A gesture, usually polite, urging another person to take a turn at something ahead of the speaker.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals. Gordon Moore

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it. Zora Neale Hurston

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains. Walt Whitman

Do not insult the mother alligator until after you have crossed the river. Haitian Proverb

A coquettish woman is like a shadow -- as you chase her she runs away, and if you run away, she chases after you. Persian Proverb

The person who knows himself and his opponent will be invincible. Carve a peg only after you have observed the hole. Korean Proverb

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