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Brewer'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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