flag up

Meaning

1. flag sth up

   to draw attention to sth

   The report flagged up the dangers of under - age drinking.

In the movies · 7

• They've got the flag up now and you can see the stars and stripes from the lunar surface.Apollo 112019
• And the chequered flag is going up.Senna2010
• Did you cry when they gave your wife that nice folded-up flag?R.I.P.D.2013
• Chokin' on the heat While I'm frozen to my seat All keep on rollin' down the So I'm switchin' up the beat nothing But yo, at least we got the They left with me, I'll be on a beach with Sonny In the Heights I hang my flag up on display We came to work and to live It reminds me that I came DR, PR, we are not stoppin'In the Heights2021
• Typically, a French ship will change its registration to raise the American flag and pick up a cargo of sugar in Havana.Amazing Grace2006
• - Come on. We're gonna swim over this thing. - Whoa, partner. Little red flag going up.Finding Nemo2003
• - There are eight flags up there now.Meet John Doe1941

Learn it in full scenes

• Amazing Grace2006
  • Wilberforce Meets Barbara in Bath
  • Wilberforce Tells Richard He Found God
  • Pitt Asks Wilberforce to Return

From the same entry

• fly the flag
• keep the flag flying
• like waving a red flag in front of a bull
• flag down