strike one's flag

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To take down one's national or other representative flag in order to indicate surrender. especially
    — 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. To yield, give up, or surrender. broadly,idiomatic
    — 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.

词形变化

strikes one's flag present,singular,third-person striking one's flag participle,present struck one's flag past struck one's flag participle,past stricken one's flag archaic,participle,past,rare strike one's colors alternative strike the colors alternative strike the flag alternative
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