"hoist the flag" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe the act of raising a flag on a flagpole. For example: "At the start of the summer festival, they hoisted the flag to mark the occasion."
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Hence, in time of peace it would be an insult to hoist the flag of one friendly nation above that of another.
And they both hoist the flag as a way to show they deserve something that relates in one way or another to the founding principles.
Hoist the Flag was the 2-year-old male champion in 1970, but he sustained a career-ending injury while being pointed for the Kentucky Derby.
Hoist the Flag had won five times and had finished first in his only other race, the Champagne Stakes, only to be disqualified for interference.
Hail to Reason, Hoist the Flag, Hyperion, Nearco, Bull Dog - these are the horses most prominent in her pedigree, horses whose appearance would not command a high price at the yearling sales that power the racing industry.
On the other, Halhoul had heard that promise before, and the residents had decorated and undecorated their streets so many times that they were not going to hoist the flags until the first Palestinian police jeep pulled into town.
Some younger members of the party thought that Mr Fukuda might at last be hoisting the flag of reform.
Then he served on Sir Theophilus Shepstone's staff and himself hoisted the flag at the brief first annexation of the Transvaal (1877 81).
One of Komburov's first priorities is to investigate the pro-separatist rally on May 14th that hoisted the flag of the Donetsk People's Republic.
Well, we hoisted the flag, watched the seagulls riding the currents, and spied on the gannet colony on the nearby island of Les Etacs.
