| 单词 | to stand on points |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto stand on (also upon) points (also †one's points) h. to stand on (also upon) points (also †one's points): to insist upon details of conduct or manners which one has espoused; to act scrupulously or punctiliously. Now usually in to stand on points of (law, principle, etc.): to be punctilious in the observation of such points. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > be discourteous [verb (intransitive)] > not be affable > stand upon ceremony to strain or pinch courtesy1528 to stand on (also upon) points (also one's points)a1592 to stand upon ceremony1603 a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. A4v Our countrie Margret is so coy, And standes so much vpon her honest pointes, That marriage or no market with the mayd. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream v. i. 118 This fellow doth not stand vpon points . View more context for this quotation 1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor i. ii. sig. B4v He stood vpon poynts with me too. View more context for this quotation 1629 J. Ford Lovers Melancholy iii. i. 41 Be mine, and I am yours: I cannot stand on points. 1685 J. Bunyan Disc. Pharisee & Publicane 67 For a man here to stand thus upon his points, it is death. a1714 J. Sharp Serm. (1738) I. vii. 219 Let us not stand upon Points with God Almighty, as if so much was his, and so much was our own. 1789 Sir F. Blake Polit. Tracts i. 66 It is not for people in our situation to stand upon points: it is happy for us that the end we aim at may yet be achieved. 1812 J. B. White Modern Honor ii. 16 No ceremony—Do not stand on points. 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 10 In a bachelor's house..there is no lady to stand upon squeamish points about lodging gentlemen in old holes and corners. 1886 R. C. Praed Miss Jacobsen's Chance II. xvii. 289 I'm not going to stand on nice points of law. 1903 Times 26 Mar. 4/5 I do not wish to stand on points of precedent..if it is understood that I am not creating a precedent. 1955 Times 2 Mar. 6/6 No rigid doctrinaire attitude of standing on points of punctilio would do. 2004 Times (Nexis) 31 Mar. (Sports section) 39 It is all well and good to stand on points of principle—but sometimes you just have to go out and do the business. < as lemmas |
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