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after you, Claude – no, after you, Cecil used to depict a lack of aggression or unnecessary good manners. A catchphrase regularly delivered by Jack Train and Horace Percival in the BBC radio comedy ITMA, 1939–49. Contemporary usage has been widely applied to sports such as cricket, hockey, football and motor-racing, and also to first-past-the-post electoral systems UK, 1939
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