flag fall

British  

noun

1. the minimum charge for hiring a taxi, to which the rate per kilometre is added

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Example Sentences

We won't see the best of him until it's flat to the boards from flag fall, that's Overturn.

From The Guardian • Jan. 9, 2013

Harllee, commanding one of the color companies, seeing the flag fall, seized it and waving it aloft, called to the men to forward and take the breastworks.

From History of Kershaw's Brigade by Dickert, D. Augustus

And, when the man was killed, my papa would not let the flag fall, but took it in his own hands.

From The Nursery, May 1873, Vol. XIII. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest People by Various

They let the flag fall over the dead face again, set their shoulders to the bier, and moved forward, bringing down their great staves rhythmically as they walked.

From Hillsboro People by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

We watched the doctor's launch go out to her, saw the flag fall and the belch of smoke as she started shoreward, while the launch came on to us.

From A Woman's Impression of the Philippines by Fee, Mary Helen