strike one's flag
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strike one's flag
verb strikes one's flag · striking one's flag · struck one's flag · stricken one's flag · strike one's colors
- To take down one's national or other representative flag in order to indicate surrender. At length, having lost her fore and main-top-masts, and her mizzen-mast having been shot away to the deck, . . . the English frigate was reduced to the last extremity. Captain Cardan ordered his signal quarter-master to strike the flag.
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To yield, give up, or surrender.
The point of this exercise wouldn't be to cause one side of the argument to see that the other is correct and strike their flag.
Similar: give in, strike the tent, throw in the sponge, throw in the towel, throw up the sponge, wave the white flag
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verb to take down one's flag to indicate surrender
| Français | baisser pavillon |
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