Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—S

Stand Upon

(To). As To stand upon one's privilege or on punctilios; this is the Latin insisto. In French, “Insister sur son privilege or sur des vétilles. ”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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