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English Idiom: Nail your colours to the mast
Well, I’ve covered raise a red flag and half-mast, so today’s idiom, nail your colours to the mast, fits in with the flag theme.
Flags are easily recognized and well-known symbols.
A national flag is flown to let everyone know which country you are from or at least support.
At any Soccer World Cup match, you can easily tell which country people support by the flags or colours they carry.
Flags can also be referred to as colours.
Instead of raising the flag, you can raise the colours, for example.
So, with that explained, when you nail your colours to the mast, you let everyone know your opinions or plans.
Another example is when people protest or participate in a peaceful march for some cause.
They are nailing their colours to the mast.
They let everyone know their opinion about the topic or cause they either support or oppose.
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