strike one's flag (English, verb)
expansion: strike one's flag (third-person singular simple present strikes one's flag, present participle striking one's flag, simple past struck one's flag, past participle struck one's flag or (rare or archaic) stricken one's flag)
Senses:
topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: To take down one's national or other representative flag in order to indicate surrender.
tags: especially
glosses: To yield, give up, or surrender.
tags: broadly
idiomatic
Forms:
form: strikes one's flag
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: striking one's flag
tags: participle
present
form: struck one's flag
tags: past
form: struck one's flag
tags: participle
past
form: stricken one's flag
tags: archaic
participle
past
rare
form: strike one's colors
tags: alternative
form: strike the colors
tags: alternative
form: strike the flag
tags: alternative