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
Pasha-Russian
JelleYEL-lə (Dutch)Frisian, Dutch
Evelin-German, Estonian, Hungarian
Ruslanroo-SLAHN (Russian)Russian, Tatar, Bashkir, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Ossetian, Cheche
TÓNi-Hungarian
GrÓA-Norse Mythology, Icelandic