stand on
verb2
To observe a ceremony or tradition; to insist on proper behavior or recognition.
- Let's not stand on ceremony.
- Saue you gentlemen — Nay, we do not ſtand much on our gentilitie, friend;[…]1598, Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Euery Man in His Humour. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii, page 8:
- Derived terms
- stand on ceremony