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flagpole
/ ˈflæɡˌstɑːf; ˈflæɡˌpəʊl /
noun
- a pole or staff on which a flag is hoisted and displayed
- run something up the flagpolerun something up the flagpole to pursue a tentative course of action in order to gauge the reaction it receives
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She described the way she and Igor watched the Donetsk flag go up and down the flagpole in front of their window.
Then the huddles break, and the 200 or so children join hands in a ring around the flagpole.
The knots were so plentiful that the thread stood up like a gnarled flagpole.
Mrs. Noah turned pale and the Weathercock shifted about uneasily on the top of the flagpole.
"Someone has been making a flagpole," said the Angel, running the toe of her shoe around the stump, evidently made that season.
I painted a flagpole on a barn up in Massachusetts where there was four hundred dollars in gold hidden under the weather-vane.
Then it took a long jump straight down Wall Street, smashed a flagpole to slivers, and vanished.
And so you walk right up the building or church or flagpole, and the smoother the surface the easier you go up.
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