stand on ceremony - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
stand on ceremony (third-person singular simple present stands on ceremony, present participle standing on ceremony, simple past and past participle stood on ceremony)
- (idiomatic) To act in a formal, ceremonious, or overly polite manner.
Please make yourself at home – there's no need to stand on ceremony.
2016, Yuu Kamiya, translated by Daniel Komen, No Game No Life, volume 4:
“Hmp, don’t stand on ceremony, lads. You may as well savor the blessing of my seaside attire!”
act in a formal manner
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Burmese: အားနာ (my) (a:na)
- Chinese:
- Danish: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: pönöttää (fi), jäykistellä (fi), kruusailla (fi), kursailla (fi)
- French: faire des manières (fr), faire des façons (fr), (colloquial, Lorraine) faire des âties (fr)
- Italian: fare complimenti
- Japanese: 形式張る (けいしきばる, keishikibaru), (hold back) 遠慮する (えんりょする, enryo-suru)
- Polish: ceregielić się impf, certolić się impf, certować się impf
- Portuguese: fazer cerimônia (pt)
- Russian: церемо́ниться (ru) (ceremónitʹsja)
- Serbo-Croatian: понашати се формално (ponašati se formalno)
- Spanish: cumplir con las formalidades