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strike one's flag

To yield, give up, or surrender.
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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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Submitted on July 10, 2018

Additional definitions for 'strike one's flag':

strike one's flagTo take down one's national or other representative flag in order to indicate surrender.
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