Antedatings in the Yale Book of Quotations -- 13 : Run Up the Flagpole

[Fred Shapiro]

run up the flagpole (HDAS, s.v. flagpole, 1981)

1955 Reginald Rose _Twelve Angry Men_


Fred Shapiro


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