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white flag
a sign of surrender. [Western Folklore: Misc.]
See : Defeat


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There are seasonal flags like the Toronto Maple Leaf's flag that flies until the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs most years, and white flags that are presented when you surrender.
As the vogue for reality programming continues to roll, juggernaut-like, across the TV landscape, the networks in particular are scrambling for safety, brandishing a newly fabricated batch of high-concept shows like white flags raised in surrender.
White flags of surrender dotted their lines, Wainwright and other observers did not know it then, but they were witnessing the beginning of the greatest atrocity of World War II in the Pacific, the Bataan Death March.
 
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