new to me: "flag up"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 9/3/2009 10:04 AM, Barbara Need wrote:
>Seen on another list:
>
>"Sometimes I need to flag up my ideas even before they are  ready,
>for other
>people to shoot  down,"
>
>I had never heard this before (one hit for the phrase in the Archives
>from 2007), and it is a use, not a mention.

Presumably an evolution from "run up the flagpole"?

Joel

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