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women and children first

women and children first phrase: an exhortation to follow the principle of removing women and children from danger before men.

Phrase

women and children first

  1. An exhortation to follow the principle of removing women and children from danger before men.

Antonyms of women and children first

Origin of women and children first

The earliest known usage of this phrase is from 1912, when RMS Titanic was sinking.

Questions about women and children first

What does women and children first mean?
Women and children first means an exhortation to follow the principle of removing women and children from danger before men.
What part of speech is women and children first?
Women and children first is a phrase.

Words near women and children first in the dictionary

  1. Wombwells
  2. womby
  3. wombyn
  4. women
  5. women about town
  6. women and children first
  7. women are wonderful effect
  8. women children
  9. women kings
  10. women of easy virtue
  11. women of ill fame

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