stand at ease
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Gilbert then briefly had the House stand at ease as he marched the bill up to Youngkin on the third floor of the Capitol, accompanied by several other Republicans.
From Washington Post • Feb. 14, 2022
Besides these all-purpose standing forces, another sketchily trained army of 300,000 would be assembled to stand at ease, ready for home defense.
From Time Magazine Archive
The crews, told they could stand at ease, leaned on the rail and shouted themselves froggy.
From Time Magazine Archive
So the Sergeant set his squad to stand at ease again, and Polson, being provided with a belt and sabre, was stuck up in front of it, feeling absurdly like a trick ape on show.
From VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea by Murray, David Christie
Which slender columns, laboring under Enormous arches, give beholders;— Or those poor Caryatides, Condemned to smile and stand at ease, With a whole house upon their shoulders.
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael
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