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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—C

Captain Stiff

To come Captain Stiff over one. To treat one with cold formality.

“I shouldn't quite come Captain Stiff over him.” —S. Warren: Ten Thousand a Year.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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