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standing on ceremony
vb. (present participle of stand on ceremony English)
Usage examples of "standing on ceremony".
Until now he'd seen her only as another cheerful, mud-spattered soldier, someone who'd treated him like a comrade, never standing on ceremony.
Certainly, the Dragon himself did not seem to be standing on ceremony.
Whatever his lordship might have said about not standing on ceremony with him he had supposed that he would find several other persons gathered at Austerby, for form’.
She might have continued to voice her objections, but they had reached her tent, and he bundled her inside without standing on ceremony as soon as she had unsaddled Caryo and rubbed her down.