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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.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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