stand on ceremony
to behave in a formal way:
Please sit down and make yourself comfortable, we don't stand on ceremony here.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Manners & levels of formality
- buttoned-down
- ceremonial
- ceremonious
- ceremony
- decency
- formal
- formally
- genteel
- gentility
- grace
- ground rules
- impropriety
- not the done thing idiom
- propriety
- pukka
- refinement
- solemnity
- stiff
- stiffly
- valediction
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