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
NurNOOR (Arabic)Arabic, Turkish, Urdu, Uyghur, Indonesian, Malay
Woodward['wudwəd]
LennartLE-nahrt (Low German)Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Low German, Dutch
Carlman-Ancient Germanic
Jayanta-Hinduism, Bengali, Indian, Assamese
Philippos-Ancient Greek, Biblical Greek