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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
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.”   1
 


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