Phrases related to: Gentlemen

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ladies and gentlemen	Used to address an audience.	Rate it: (4.00 / 1 vote)
born with a silver spoon in one's mouth	Note. The original nautical expression is just born with a silver spoon and describes those young gentlemen who were able to enter the Royal Navy without examination and whose promotion was assured. the converse was born with a wooden ladle.	Rate it: (4.33 / 3 votes)
make a virtue of necessity	C. 1595, William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, act 4, sc.1.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
talk like an apothecary	To use hard or gallipot words: from the assumed gravity and affectation of knowledge generally put on by the gentlemen of this profession, who are commonly as superficial in their learning as they are pedantic in their language.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
une partie carrée	A party composed of two ladies and two gentlemen.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
幾位	dear everyone; ladies and gentlemen	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)