The gentlemanly thing would have been to stand back and let the lady enter first.
So the gentlemanly thing was to break up with Karen, even if it meant being alone.
But a lot I run into say they like a guy to open the door for them, to do the gentlemanly things.
He had apologized, which was the gentlemanly thing to do.
I took it from her twitching fingers and did the gentlemanly thing.
"I guess I should do the gentlemanly thing and leave."
Roscoe had heard that from people; still it didn't seem like a very gentlemanly thing to say in the woman's presence.
"We didn't think of it as not a gentlemanly thing to do," he said before going into an owners meeting here.
Not a gentlemanly thing to do, but I had no other weapon and he was about to kill you.
"Perhaps it is not the gentlemanly thing to do."