1894 Brewer’s / 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.
· ·
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.