stand on ceremony



stand on ceremony

to hold rigidly to protocol or formal manners. (Often in the negative.) Please help yourself to more. Don't stand on ceremony. We are very informal around here. Hardly anyone stands on ceremony.
See also: on, stand

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Adetokunbo-Western African, Yoruba
Agate['eigət]
AdalbertAH-dahl-bert (German)Ancient Germanic, German, Polish
JÓAnnes-Faroese
MÁRk-Hungarian
Narcisonahr-CHEE-so (Italian), nahr-THEE-so (Spanish), nahr-SEE-so (Latin American Spanish)Italian, Spanish, Portuguese