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2022-05-15 08:05
Hoist (a/the) white flag phrase
To accept defeat and let someone win or take control of something that has been yours until now.
The gunman knew that he couldn't escape, so he hoisted the white flag.
When a posse surrounded my gang and me at that ranch house, we hoisted a white flag.
They tried to talk us into hoisting a white flag, but we will fight until there isn't a single one of us left standing!
1. To cause a person or group to be submissive by weakening or defeating them
2. To disrupt or stop a process or thing
To unwillingly give up control of something
To yield to someone or something.
The verb "hoist" must be conjugated according to its tense.
The first mention of the usage of white flags to surrender is made during the Eastern Han dynasty (AD 25–220).
Do you see anything wrong?
1. An unlucky situation
2. An interjection used to express sympathy for someone's bad luck
1. I have had some tough beans recently. I got low marks and lost my bike just two days later.
2. A: I've got a low mark.
B: Tough bean, bro.
