To come Captain Stiff over one. To treat one with cold formality.
“I shouldnʹt quite come Captain Stiff over him.”—S. Warren: Ten Thousand a Year.
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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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