strike one's flag

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Tanımlar (İngilizce)

  1. fiil 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.”

  2. fiil 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.”

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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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