After you is a polite invitation to go first. After you, please, no, after you.
It belongs to doorways, lifts and queues, and two polite people can hold each other up with it for some time. It is said with a small gesture, and the gesture is half the phrase.
1phraseafter youA polite invitation to go first.
“He held the door and said after you.”
after you is a phrase.
Practised in Small Talk & Everyday Phrases