subs. phr. (provincial).—A quarrel, tiff, or disagreement: e.g., ‘There’s quite a STAND-FURTHER between them.’
TO TAKE STANDING, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To accept or endure with composure [as one would take a ‘high jump’ without a run in]: hence, without ado.
1901. Free Lance, 27 April, 77, 2. Like a philosophical American, he TOOK IT STANDING, merely remarking to an English friend that it was “just as cheap as Monte Carlo, and a durned sight pleasanter.”
