strike one's flag | Idiomator

Meaning: (military,especiallynaval)To take down one's national or other representative flag in order to indicatesurrender.1850,Herman Melville, chapter 74, inWhite Jacket: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 tostrike the flag.1864February 7, “Very Latest Per Edinburgh”, inNew York Times, retrieved2 July 2015:An Austro-Prussian army of 120.000 men . . . is of itself so imposing a spectacle that one is tempted to believe the little Kingdom of Denmark willstrike its flagwithout firing a shot.1921,Jeffery Farnol, chapter 12, inMartin Conisby's Vengeance:The enemy having yielded to our mercy andstruck their flag, we ceased our fire, and thinking the worst over and done, I watched where Belvedere conned the ship with voice and gesture.; (idiomatic,by extension)Toyield,give up, or surrender.2014,David Berreby, “What If We Start Talking About Race Like We Talk About Religion?”, inbigthink.com, retrieved2 July 2015:The point of this exercise wouldn't be to cause one side of the argument to see that the other is correct andstrike their flag.

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