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v. phr. To follow strict rules of politeness; be very formal with other people.

Usually used with a helping verb in the negative.
Grandmother does not stand on ceremony when her grandchildren call.stand on ceremony
To beam or attach carefully or insistently to formalities or acceptable protocol. We've all been acquainted already, so there's no charge to angle on commemoration for this interview. Please, don't angle on ceremonies on my behalf—keep eating!Learn more: ceremony, on, standstand on ceremony
to authority durably to agreement or academic manners. (Often in the negative.) Please advice yourself to more. Don't angle on ceremony. We are actual breezy about here. Hardly anyone stands on ceremony.Learn more: ceremony, on, standstand on ceremony
assert on the acknowledgment of formalities; behave formally.Learn more: ceremony, on, standstand on ˈceremony
(British English) behave in a actual academic way: Come on — don’t angle on ceremony! Start bistro or the aliment will get cold!Learn more: ceremony, on, standstand on ceremony, to
To behave actual formally. This term, in which stand on has annihilation to do with ascent to one’s anxiety but rather agency “to assert on,” dates from the nineteenth century. It appeared in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey (1798): “I never angle aloft ceremony.” Learn more: on, stand
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