TO STAND UPON ONE’S PANTABLES, verb. phr. (old colloquial).—To stand upon dignity; to assert one’s position. [PANTABLES = pantoufle = slipper].
1580. A. SAKER, Narbonus, II. 99. Hee STANDETH VPON HIS PANTABLES, and regardeth greatly his reputation.
1647. BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, The Faithful Friends, iii. 2.
| Then comes a page: the saucy jacket-wearer | |
| STOOD UPON’S PANTABLES with me, and would in; | |
| But, I think, I took him down ere I had done with him. |
1664. COTTON, Scarronides, or Virgile Travestie, 89.
| Is now forsooth, so proud (what else!) | |
| And STANDS SO ON HER PANTABLES. |
