run it up the flagpole
Meaning: to test an idea; to present something for approval or feedback.
Language: English
Literally: to run it up the flagpole
Category: Daily Life
Origin: American corporate jargon from 1960s; flags raised to gauge support.
More idioms — Daily Life
- Mad as a hatter — Completely eccentric or unhinged.
- To steal someone's thunder — To take credit for another's idea or upstage their big moment.
- Die Kirche im Dorf lassen — To keep things in proportion and not get carried away.
- Das Leben ist kein Ponyhof — Life is not all fun and games; expect hardship.
- Estar de Rodríguez — To be a husband left working in town while the family is on holiday.
- Ogni morte di papa — Extremely rarely; once in a blue moon.
More English idioms
- knock on wood — to seek good fortune; to ward off bad luck.
- pull someone's leg — To joke or tease someone by telling them something untrue.
- To turn a blind eye — To deliberately ignore something you know is wrong.
- Hair of the dog — A morning drink taken to cure a hangover.
- To bite the bullet — To face something painful with gritted courage.
- To go cold turkey — To quit a habit abruptly and completely.
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