'Stand on ceremony'
'Stand on ceremony'
Has anyone encountered this idiom? How exactly do you avail yourself of it?
In these here parts, what you stand for is what you will tolerate from others. What you stand on is what you expect from others.
Someone who stands on ceremony is only comfortable when all present observe the letter of all the applicable social laws. Ostensibly to maintain dignified interaction within and between the social classes and to preserve the decorum of momentous occasions, standing on ceremony may lead the high strung to moral rectaltude. [ahem, sic]
Someone who doesn't stand on ceremony might wear jeans with a tuxedo jacket to the Oscars (perhaps even replace it with a "tux" screen-printed t-shirt). A more mundane example is the neighbor who cheerfully serves beer without glasses or coasters and calls everyone by first name.
-gailr
who has re-purposed a few ceremonies as ottomans...
[edit]Bailey types faster than I do![/edit]
Someone who stands on ceremony is only comfortable when all present observe the letter of all the applicable social laws. Ostensibly to maintain dignified interaction within and between the social classes and to preserve the decorum of momentous occasions, standing on ceremony may lead the high strung to moral rectaltude. [ahem, sic]
Someone who doesn't stand on ceremony might wear jeans with a tuxedo jacket to the Oscars (perhaps even replace it with a "tux" screen-printed t-shirt). A more mundane example is the neighbor who cheerfully serves beer without glasses or coasters and calls everyone by first name.
-gailr
who has re-purposed a few ceremonies as ottomans...
[edit]Bailey types faster than I do![/edit]
Good analysis, although I think it's reversed. Moral high-ground being what it is.In these here parts, what you stand for is what you will tolerate from others. What you stand on is what you expect from others.
ye olde stick up the rump syndrome!Someone who stands on ceremony is only comfortable when all present observe the letter of all the applicable social laws. Ostensibly to maintain dignified interaction within and between the social classes and to preserve the decorum of momentous occasions, standing on ceremony may lead the high strung to moral rectaltude. [ahem, sic]
just quick on the typing finger [sic]
-gailr
who has re-purposed a few ceremonies as ottomans...
[edit]Bailey types faster than I do![/edit]
mark I've re-purposed my ceremonial gear into work clothes [we called them play clothes, oh, about 100 years ago] Bailey
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kb
This is true, when they tell us to clean up our act, we just say Ugh! ugh! ugh!...We don't often stand for it either.You'll note that we don't often stand on ceremony here at the AlphaAgora ...
well I do anyway.
mark king-o-de-chimps-or-is-dat-chumps? Bailey
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Hmm... unless you're a short politician, in which case they mean your platform and your platform shoes respectively.In these here parts, what you stand for is what you will tolerate from others. What you stand on is what you expect from others.
Siriusly, while "to stand on ceremony" is well known, I'm not familiar with Gailr's 2nd usage.
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