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flag down



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Idioms and Phrases

Signal to stop, as in The police were flagging down all cars . This expression uses the verb flag in the sense of “catch the attention of, as by waving a flag,” a usage dating from the mid-1800s; down was added in the first half of the 1900s.

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Example Sentences

Angry people tore a Russian flag down, and overturned vehicles parked outside the embassy.

What possessed her to flag down a passing truck and climb in?

Brendan now carried the flag down to the end of the block, which was choked with sand that had been carried in by the storm surge.

A lusty cheer came from the British ships; they thought the flag down and the victory theirs.

The pirate captain hauled his flag down three times, but hoisted it again when the fire of the Enterprise ceased.

The patriotic agent tried to reason with them but to no avail, so one afternoon he took the flag down for a time.

And there flies a white flag down at the river's edge—has that something to do with it?

What she said or did hereon is strictly a family question, and can in no way concern the public, since I hauled my flag down.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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