stand upon one's dignity

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Verb

stand upon one's dignity (third-person singular simple present stands upon one's dignity, present participle standing upon one's dignity, simple past and past participle stood upon one's dignity)

  1. (dated) To have or affect a high notion of one's own rank, privilege, or character.
    • 1881, Richard Grant White, “Habits of English Life”, in The Atlantic Monthyl:
      They did not stand upon their dignity, nor give their minds to being or to seeming as elegant and as fine as anybody else.
    • 1915, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear, Part 2 Chapter 2:
      "By Gar! you've got an Irish tongue in your head anyhow," cried the saloon-keeper, not quite certain whether to humour this audacious visitor or to stand upon his dignity.

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